A comprehensive, erudite narrative that traces the history of a group dedicated to exploring alternative and effective...
A book examines the pioneering evolution of a health care initiative centered on mind-body medicine.
Editor and former executive director of The Bravewell Collaborative, Horrigan (Voices of Integrative Medicine: Conversations and Encounters, 2003) elaborates on the good work of the philanthropic collective whose success was based on a compassionate model of integrative medicine connecting care providers with patients. In accessible language, she surveys Bravewell’s rich history from its inception in 2002, when a group of philanthropists, visionaries, industry leaders, and health care professionals networked, became inspired, and joined forces in a valiant effort to “make healthcare more responsive to the complete needs and well-being of the patient.” The collaborative was also envisioned through the experiences of Penny George, the daughter of a physician, who underwent grueling breast cancer treatment and visualized a more comfortable, calmative, and humanistic alternative approach. Once the collaborative was formed, its brainstorming strategy involved incrementally reshaping and transforming modern American medicine through concepts incorporating the mind, body, and spirit into one’s health management, and championing prevention and wellness initiatives. Also included are the sensible, effective communication strategies, key behaviors, and principles responsible for making the group the success it became in later years. Training fellowships and a clinical network of like-minded physicians (including international allies) soon followed, alongside community-building projects and integrative-medicine awards programs for pioneering leaders. With their principal strategies completed, Bravewell members in 2015 “decided that the time was right to sunset the organization.” The challenge now, Horrigan relates in this absorbing volume, is how to retain all of the collaborative’s proactive work, keep the health care system a patient-focused one, and not lapse into the “broken and unsustainable” condition that made Bravewell such a necessary movement. Complementing the details of Bravewell’s esteemed legacy, the book deftly describes the many ways readers can partake in alternative therapeutic and holistic approaches and methods of healing. Horrigan’s convincing, easy-to-read account, primarily aimed at health care administrations and philanthropic leaders, may even inspire others to begin their own cooperatives and carry forward Bravewell’s honorable spadework. The author writes lucidly about Bravewell’s integral role in “changing how Americans think about health and medicine.”
A comprehensive, erudite narrative that traces the history of a group dedicated to exploring alternative and effective patient care delivery.Pub Date: May 6, 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9964836-0-5
Page Count: 200
Publisher: Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health
Review Posted Online: May 17, 2016
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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