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| Description |
| Excerpts |
| Foreign Rights |
| Modern Medicine: The New World Religion |
| How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices |
| Oliver Clerc |
| Religion / Medical |
| $12.95 |
| Pages: 112 pages, Size: 5 x 8 |
| Published: May, 2004 |
| ISBN: 1-932181-14-8 |
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| Description: |
| Put forth in this book is the assertion that medicine is actually ruled by a set of beliefs, myths, and rites of Christianity it has never freed itself from. Supporting this claim are discussions about the ways in which physicians have taken the place of priests, vaccination plays the same role as baptism, the search for health has replaced the quest for salvation, and the hope of physical immortality (cloning and genetic engineering) takes priority over eternal life. This book argues that the medical establishment has become the government’s ally, as the Catholic Church has in the past. "Charlatans" are prosecuted today, as "heretics" were in the past, and dogmatism rules out promising medical theories. It contends that only by becoming aware of how religious beliefs and primitive fears unconsciously influence one’s relationships with medicine can people start walking on the path of freedom, personal responsibility, and individual sovereignty. |
Author Biography: |
| Olivier Clerc is a Franco-Swiss author, journalist, editor and literary director, specializing in spirituality, shamanism and both individual and collective well-being. For over 20 years, he has helped building a bridge over the Atlantic by translating and publishing numerous US authors, while also serving as interpreter for many of them, when lecturing in Europe. He has trained with don Miguel Ruiz, Marshall Rosenberg, and has published books by Dan Millman, Gerald Jampolsky, Judge Judy or Sobonfu Somé, among many others.
Olivier Clerc has himself written 6 books, so far, on issues as different as lucid dreaming (1983), isolation tanks (1985), spirituality (1987), his unique approach of violence (The Tiger & the Spider : the Tao of Violence, 2004, French edition) and ethics, approached through mind-impacting metaphors: Are we already half cooked ? (2005, to be released in French). For 5 years, Olivier was also Chief Editor of a national French magazine specializing in health, ecology and social issues. Born in Switzerland, he now lives in Burgundy with his wife and two sons. |
Reviews/Endorsements: |
| This is an important book. Not only is it written in a language of quality, the first courtesy to the reader and the expression of a clear mind, it is also the book of a humanist. Who shall read this book will make progress in the knowledge of him/herself. It is a hymn to liberty, which includes, of course, responsibility. —Jean-Yves Revault French author of several novels & self-help books Every so often someone comes along and knocks us in the head with a proposition that elucidates something we already know but have not formulated into a whole idea. Your book about the new religion has done that. Thank you. Modern medicine’s role as the new world religion has been staring all of us the face for decades. Olivier Clerc |