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In this book, the authors show that the failure of public health arises, not from the failure of contemporary medicine, but from a failure of the philosophical assumptions upon which it rests. x
By exposing the limits of this philosophical framework, the authors suggest an alternative approach to health care, one that derives from a profoundly ecological and holistic philosophy of nature. x
They conclude that the advancement of community health depends on a comprehensive program of health education in which the responsibility for is inextricably knit with a new consciousness of ecological stewardship. x
The authors postulate epistemology in which knowing is directed towards participation with nature rather that separation from it. x x
183 pages 228 x 150 mm
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