Endorsements for Healing and Medicine

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“Paul Dieppe is an internationally renowned rheumatologist with an esteemed career in academia and evidence-based medicine. In this book, he has courageously and creatively charted different  waters, mostly unexplored and sadly neglected by the medical profession. His professional and personal journey plumbs the depths of healing, and what that actually means to each of us as people. This resonates deeply with physicians like me and will with those grappling with illness or trauma. We increasingly have to question the limitations of our scientific biomedical approach, with its focus on curing alone. This book brings messages of hope that are, themselves, healing”.

Professor Brian M. Berman MD Professor Emeritus, Family and Community Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Founder and President, Nova Institute for Health; Founder and Director, Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field; Bravewell Leadership Award in Integrative Medicine.

“Professor Dieppe brings to this book a lifetime of outstanding clinical and research experience as an internationally acclaimed academic physician, combined with his personal insights and experiences of healing. It is the most rigorously researched and insightful book on human healing to date. This book should be read by everyone involved in the delivery of health care, whether as doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals or therapists. It is a powerful rallying call to move beyond the blinkered confines of reductionism to elevate medicine to a new plane – as a healing art and science. And it serves as an illuminating guide for anyone interested in self-care – and that should be all of us – to embark on a healing journey whatever their stage of life”. 

Professor Stewart Mercer MBBS, PhD. Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK. Co-Author of Embracing Empathy in Healthcare (Radcliffe, 2014)

“How should healing, that mysterious process we all know, be studied? Dr Dieppe is one of those rare researchers who seeks out and listens carefully to people whose accounts of healing are typically dismissed. He examines closely experiences of his own that most choose to ignore. Building on this attentiveness, he gives us the story of his journey from a biomedical approach to healing to one that takes the powers of the body to be at the heart of healing’s mystery. Dieppe’s style is that of a gifted raconteur. His story of discovery becomes ours in the course of his telling. His vision of the body as fundamentally spiritual offers a picture of healing as the activity of living with love into our connections with all that is”.

David Schenck PhD, Co-author of Healers: Extraordinary Clinicians at Work and What Patients Teach: Everyday Ethics of Healthcare, and the author of Into the Field of Suffering: Finding the Other Side of Burnout.

“As we navigate through challenging times, this book offers a refreshing perspective on the role of healing in medicine. This book is a must-read for professional health care trainees and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of healing and its role in our lives.” 

Professor Ian Fussel MRCGP, Pro Vice Chancellor for Education, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, UK