History, Philosophy and Medicine

Designed as a text–book for students of phytotherapy, it will appeal to all who have an interest in natural healing and its relationship with current and historical models of orthodox medicine. For the homeopath it examines the wider historical, philosophical, practical and ethical underpinnings. Written by a herbalist who combines long experience of life in the clinic with a temperament that is both historical and philosophical. …this book places natural medicine where it rightfully belongs not in a side–show but at the heart of the history of thought … about humankind, healing and our place in the universe