On Learning to Heal, or What Medicine Doesn't Know:
A conversation with Ed Cohen
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April 26, 2023
3pm-5pm PST
Zoom Link
https://bit.ly/Onlearningtoheal
"On Learning to Heal is the memoir cum medical philosophy of an intellectual with a humiliating chronic illness and his ultimately successful attempt to find a way of being both inside and outside his disease. It follows his struggles first to manage his illness, then live with it, until finally he turns his attention to the so much that was working in his body- breathing, moving, being. What he wants us to know is that if we were alive, then there is health within us. If his ideas were followed, you would be tuned instead to what is working in your body and not to what is not working, and you might find very little wrong with you and mostly right with you."
-Victoria Sweet, author of Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
"With touching and incisive autobiographical accounts, Ed Cohen leads readers on a journey through his own entangling of bodily experience in relation to the limitations of modern medical thought. Part captivating story about his experience with and recovering from a devastating illness and part history and critique of the biomedical models that failed to fully comprehend his disease, On Learning to Heal is a compelling and beautiful book."
-Vincanne Adams, author of Glyphosate and the Swirl:
An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move