From the Book - Regular Print
Part I. Ecological Medicine: One Notion, Indivisible --
Coming Age of Ecological Medicine / Kenny Ausubel 3 --
Personal Healing and Planetary Healing / Michael Lerner 12 --
Thinking Like a Girl Is Good Medicine / Charlotte Brody 20 --
Redesigning Environmental Health / Anthony Cortese 26 --
Generations at Risk: Children's Health and the Environment / Ted Schettler 32 --
Part II. "Duh" Principle: Precaution Means Not Having to Say You're Sorry --
Precautionary Principle: Golden Rule for the New Millennium / Carolyn Raffensperger 41 --
Quantifying the Unknowable: The Risks of Risk Assessment / Peter Montague 53 --
Closing the Loophole of Uncertainty / Nancy Myers 58 --
Putting Precaution on the Street / Martha Arguello 61 --
But What Is the Alternative? / Mary O'Brien 65 --
Part III. Public Health, Cancer, and Prevention --
Reconciling Human Rights, Public Health, and the Web of Life / Ted Schettler 73 --
Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer / Barbara Dossey 78 --
Reversing the Cancer Epidemic / Samuel Epstein 83 --
Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime / Kenny Ausubel 92 --
Part IV. Nature, Culture, and Medicine --
Healing, Nature, and Modern Medicine / Andrew Weil 109 --
Role of Herbs in Integrative Medicine / Tieraona Low Dog 125 --
Community Herbalism in Modern Health Care / Christopher Hobbs 132 --
Relationships Are the Best Medicine / Jeanne Achterberg 138 --
Mothering on the Front Lines: Protecting Kids / Peggy O'Mara 144 --
Cycles of Continuous Creation / Katsi Cook 155 --
Just a Little Too Well Behaved / Diane Wilson 165 --
Why I Went to Jail to Protect My Daughter from Toxic Polluters / Terri Swearingen 175 --
Not in My Front Yard, or in Anyone's / Martha Arguello 182 --
Globalizing Indigenous Resistance / Diana Ruiz 186 --
Overcoming Environmental Racism / Henry Clark 193 --
Global Politics of Precaution / Sharyle Patton 198 --
Part VI. Healing the Spirit --
Think Globally, Act Non-locally: Consciousness beyond Time and Space / Larry Dossey 209 --
Reading the Mind of Nature: Ecopsychology and Indigenous Wisdom / Leslie Gray 223 --
Stopping the War on Mother Earth / Melissa Nelson 228 --
Green Medicine and Plant Spirit / Kathleen Harrison 231 --
Ecological Medicine: A Call for Inquiry and Action 237.