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Author:   Jean-Claude Lapraz ,  Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre ,  Julian Barker
Publisher:   Aeon Books Ltd
Imprint:   Aeon Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781912807871

ISBN 10:   1912807874
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   30 January 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION FOREWORD INTRODUCTION - A patient like you: why this book can answer your questions about your health CHAPTER ONE - The doctor takes up the story: early sense of fulfillment as a junior doctor CHAPTER TWO - Is evidence-based medicine supported by evidence? CHAPTER THREE - A true terrain-based medicine: a new hope for patients CHAPTER FOUR - Behind the closed doors of the exam room CHAPTER FIVE - What type of terrain are you? CHAPTER SIX - Medicinal plants: real promise or false dawn? CHAPTER SEVEN - The growing international influence of clinical phytotherapy CHAPTER EIGHT - Debate surrounding the diseases of civilization CHAPTER NINE - Carol’s case: metastatic breast cancer CHAPTER TEN - Cancer: a troubling phenomenon CONCLUSION APPENDIX ONE - Endocrine disruptors, a danger for every one of us APPENDIX TWO - Sources of scientific reviews of medicinal plants ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES INDEX

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Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre completed a DEA in economic and business law at the Pantheon Sorbonne and joined the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She initiated and developed fiction for television and cinema before codirecting the company Télé Images Créations. She is on the committees of the Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Hayward Gallery in London. Julian Barker is the author of The Medicinal Flora of Britain and Northwestern Europe and History, Philosophy and Medicine: Phytotherapy in Context. He started his training as a herbalist in North and Central America then returned to Britain as an apprentice herb grower at Suffolk Herbs and joined the first cohort at the School of Herbal Medicine. He became a member of NIMH in 1982 and opened a multidisciplinary clinic in Brighton where he ran a training clinic until 2009. He has served on NIMH’s Accreditation Board since 1998. Julian taught botany at the School of Herbal Medicine for over twenty years, and supervised BSc dissertations and taught philosophy on the MSc course in herbal medicine at the University of East London.

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