Stories
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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In search of the ‘nature cure’
Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
Catalogue
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Renaissance commentaries on Avicenna's 'Canon', book I, part I, and the teaching of medical theoria in the Italian universities. - Appendices. Latin editions of the 'Canon' published after 1500 and editions of Latin commentaries ... written in Italy after 1500 / Nancy G. Siraisi.
Siraisi, Nancy G.Date: 1984
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An essay on the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species : to which are added strictures on Lord Kaims's [sic] discourse, on the original diversity of mankind / by the Reverend Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. Vice-president, and professor of moral philosophy in the College of New-Jersey ; and member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.
Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.Date: MDCCLXXXVII [1787]
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La médecine à travers les siècles : histoire, philosophie / par J.-M. Guardia.
Date: 1865
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Cours de l'histoire de la philosophie moderne. Deuxième série / par Victor Cousin.
Cousin Victor, 1792-1867.Date: 1847
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La médecine à travers les siècles : histoire - philosophie / par J.-M. Guardia.
Guardia, J. M. (José Miguel Magin), 1830-1897.Date: 1865