Holistic medicine: From Stress to Optimum Health

by Kenneth R Pelletier

Hardcover, 1979

Status

Available

Call number

610

Publication

Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence (1979), Edition: 1st, 330 pages

Description

Delineates a new kind of medical practice that sustains and enhances health rather than merely patches or restores it, analyzes stress control, diet and exercise as the three main approaches to health, and presents computer printouts showing the risk.

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Pelletier examines health in the workplace, tarting with the areas in which individual action is possible--stress managment, burnout, workaholic behavior--he moves to the hazards that only group and companywide behavior can change: toxic exposures, noise, crowding and other psychological threats.
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He used case studies to illustrate action and advises on political and legal actio which can be taken to ensure a healthy workplace.
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Physical description

330 p.; 9.13 inches

ISBN

0440052882 / 9780440052883

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