HUMAN HEART, COSMIC HEART: A DOCTOR’S QUEST TO UNDERSTAND, TREAT, AND PREVENT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Book ID/图书代码： 03080017B99672
English Summary/英文概要： Thomas Cowan was a 20-year-old Duke grad—brilliant, skeptical, and already disillusioned with industrial capitalism—when he joined the Peace Corps in the mid-1970s for a two-year tour in Swaziland. There, he encountered the work of two intellectuals— Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price—whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come. Both drawn to the art of healing and repelled by the way medicine was—and continues to be—practiced in the United States, Cowan returned from Swaziland, went to medical school, and established a practice in New Hampshire and, later, San Francisco. But for years, as he raised his three children, suffered the setback of divorce, and struggled with a heart condition, he remained intrigued by the work of Price and Steiner and, in particular, with Steiner’s provocative claim that the heart is not a pump. Determined to practice medicine in a way the promoted healing rather than compounded ailments, Cowan dedicated himself to understanding whether Steiner’s claim could possibly be true. And if Steiner was correct, what, then, is the heart? What is its true role in the human body?
In this deeply personal, rigorous, and riveting account, Dr. Cowan offers up a daring claim: Not only was Steiner correct that the heart is not a pump, but our understanding of heart disease—with its origins in the blood vessels—is completely wrong. And this gross misunderstanding, with its attendant medications and risky surgeries, is the reason heart disease remains the most common cause of death worldwide.
In Human Heart, Cosmic Heart, Dr. Thomas Cowan presents a new way of understanding the body’s first, most vital organ. With it, he offers a new look at what it means to be human and how we can best care for ourselves, and one another.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 托马斯•考恩是一位20岁的杜克大学毕业生——才华横溢，持怀疑态度，并已经对工业资本主义不抱幻——那时他在上世纪70年代中期加入了和平工作队，在斯威士兰任职两年。在那里，他见识了两个知识分子的工作——鲁道夫•斯坦纳和韦斯顿•A•普莱斯——他们想法在未来几十年一直会吸引和考验他。
既被治疗技术吸引，又厌恶美国过去和现在一直实行的药物方式，分别从斯威士兰回来，考恩从斯威士兰回来后就去了医学院，并先后在新罕布什尔州和旧金山建立了实践。但多年来，他抚养了自己的三个孩子，遭遇了离婚的挫折、与心脏疾病的斗争，他仍然对普莱斯和斯坦纳的工作感兴趣，特别是，随着斯坦纳发表关于心脏不是泵的挑衅性生命。考恩致力于以促进愈合的方式行医而不是复合疾病，同时也致力于了解斯坦纳的声称有没有可能是真的。如果斯坦纳是正确的，那么，什么是心脏？它在人体中的真正作用是什么？
在这本非常个人，严谨和吸引人的阐述中，考恩博士提出了一个大胆的说法：斯坦纳关于心脏不是泵的声称不仅是正确的，而且我们所了解的心脏病——它在血管的起源是完全错误的。因为这种严重的误解，使得随之而来的药物和危险手术，是心脏病仍然是世界上最常见死亡的原因。
在《人类之心、宇宙之心》中，托马斯•考恩博士提出了一种新的方式来了解身体的第一及最重要的器官。有了它，他提供了一个关于什么是人类，我们如何能够最好地照顾自己、彼此的新看法。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：This book blew my mind. I will admit . . . I thought I was simply going to be reading an interesting memoir of a good physician. Instead, I discovered the most groundbreaking, unorthodox, outside-the-box treatise on the heart I have ever stumbled upon. If you have a heart and you want to live a long time, you must, mustread this book. --Ben Greenfield, author of theNew York Timesbestseller, Beyond Training;founder and owner, Greenfield Fitness Systems; www.bengreenfieldfitness.com"
This book blew my mind. I will admit . . . I thought I was simply going to be reading an interesting memoir of a good physician. Instead, I discovered the most groundbreaking, unorthodox, outside-the-box treatise on the heart I have ever stumbled upon. If you have a heart and you want to live a long time, you must, mustread this book. --Ben Greenfield, author of theNew York Timesbestseller, Beyond Training;founder and owner, Greenfield Fitness Systems; www.bengreenfieldfitness.com
"What happens when the medical profession views the heart as a mechanical pump? We get ghoulish surgeries, medications with horrible side effects, and soulless low-fat diets. Tom Cowan asks us to look anew at the heart; first step is the demonstration that the blood pumps the heart, not vice versa. From this observation comes a way of treating heart disease that is more effective, more gentle, more felicitate than conventional protocol. Part biography, part wisdom, part practical advice, Human Heart, Cosmic Heart will change the way you look at the process of healing and the miraculous world of the human body."--Sally Fallon Morell, President, The Weston A. Price Foundation
What happens when the medical profession views the heart as a mechanical pump? We get ghoulish surgeries, medications with horrible side effects, and soulless low-fat diets. Tom Cowan asks us to look anew at the heart; first step is the demonstration that the blood pumps the heart, not vice versa. From this observation comes a way of treating heart disease that is more effective, more gentle, more felicitate than conventional protocol.Part biography, part wisdom, part practical advice, Human Heart, Cosmic Heartwill change the way you look at the process of healing and the miraculous world of the human body. --Sally Fallon Morell, President, The Weston A. Price Foundation
"There’s only a few books a year that I think really deserve to be in everyone’s library. This is one of them. . . . It’s loaded with great information, and it can save your life or the life of someone you love."--Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder and director, mercola.com
About the Author/作者介绍： 托马斯•考恩博士是《愈合的四重路径》的主要作者，以及《婴儿和儿童保健的滋养传统书籍》（与莎莉•法伦）的合著者。考恩博士曾担任从人智学医学医师协会副会长，也是“韦斯顿•普莱斯基金™”的创始董事会成员。他也为斯顿•普莱斯基金的季刊杂志的“问医生”专栏写关于食品、农业和医术的传统智慧的文章，并在美国和加拿大做演讲。他有三个孩子，目前在旧金山行医，并妻子琳达•史密斯•考恩定居在此。
Thomas Cowan, MD is the principal author of The Fourfold Path
to Healing and co-author (with Sally Fallon) of The Nourishing
Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care. Dr. Cowan has served as
vice president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophical
Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price
Foundation™. He also writes the “Ask the Doctor” column in Wise
Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the Weston A.
Price Foundation’s quarterly magazine, and has lectured throughout
the United States and Canada. He has three grown children and
currently practices medicine in San Francisco where he resides with
his wife, Lynda Smith Cowan.
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