"[This book] deserves to be in everyone's library. . . . It's loaded
with great information, and it can save your life or the life of someone
you love."--Dr. Joseph Mercola
"This book is life-changing for those trying to understand their own
bodies, or those of loved ones, and it's truly transformative in the
hands of medical professionals, especially young doctors."--Foreword
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Thomas Cowan was a 20-year-old Duke grad--bright, 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 Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price--two men 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. 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 that 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 most central organ. He offers a new look at
what it means to be human and how we can best care for ourselves--and
one another.
