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Working with the Body's Natural Ability to Heal

Dr. Andrew Weil is one of the world's leading authorities on health, healing and medicine. His latest book "Spontaneous Healing" came out in paperback in May. It explores how to discover and enhance our body's natural ability to maintain and heal itself. Dr. Weil is currently Associate Director of the Division of Social Perspectives in Medicine at the University of Arizona. He also has a private practice, based at the Center for Integrative Medicine at Tucson, where he treats patients from around the world. (Rebroadcast)

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, August 26, 1996: Interview with Andrew Weil; Interview with Michael Lerner; Commentary on the WB and UPN television networks.
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Making Informed Choices About Cancer Treatment

Authority on complementary cancer treatments Michael Lerner. His book is called "Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer." Lerner believes that cancer patients are wise to use "whatever combination of conventional and complementary cancer therapies that makes sense to them." Lerner won a MacArthur Prize Fellowship for his work in public health in 1983.

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