Paul Dieppe - Healing and Medicine

Join Professor Paul Dieppe for a fascinating talk on his new book HEALING & MEDICINE: A Doctor's Journey Toward Their Integration (Routledge), which deals with the relationship between spiritual healing practice and contemporary Western medicine.

Healing is on many people’s minds today. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and a host of other disruptions and disasters, many of us feel that we need healing – in our personal lives, for the environment and for our planet. But healing is rarely defined and is not an accepted part of medicine in the West. This book examines the relationship between healing and medicine through the eyes of an academic physician who changed his interests from biomedical research to healing late in his career in medicine. It is based on his experiences and stories of his encounters with patients, practitioners and others for whom healing has had a particular significance, as well…