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Today's guest is an extraordinary thought leader with a heart and spirit brimming with empathy and enthusiasm. Dr. Ed Cohen shares how his thoughts and philosophies around healing have evolved over his fifty years of living with Chrohn's Disease. He brings up an amazing point, that immunity was a word that first meant "free from" in the legal world. Then over time, the world of medicine and science labeled our internal defense mechanisms as the immune system. But if we are free from threats, as immunity implies, why must we have an entire immune defense system? This is a great question he poses and answers in this episode.
Dr. Ed Cohen is a Ph.D. in Modern Thought from Stanford and for the last three decades he has been an award-winning professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality at Rutgers University. At thirteen, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission. Unfortunately, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility.
In his book On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn’s to consider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward
a “science of medicine” deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients. He demonstrates that although medicine can now offer many seemingly
miraculous therapies, medicine is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing. Exploring his own path to healing, he argues that learning to
heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility. With this book, Cohen advocates reviving healing’s role for all those whose lives are
touched by illness.
You can connect with Dr. Cohen and purchase a copy of his book here:
https://healingcounsel.com/
https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-learning-to-heal
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Heal-Medicine-Critical-Ethnography/dp/1478019328
https://www.instagram.com/healingcounsel/
https://twitter.com/Healing_Counsel
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For a 10% discount on all Hypnobabies Hypnosis Tracks use coupon code chrissycordingley
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By Chrissy CordingleyToday's guest is an extraordinary thought leader with a heart and spirit brimming with empathy and enthusiasm. Dr. Ed Cohen shares how his thoughts and philosophies around healing have evolved over his fifty years of living with Chrohn's Disease. He brings up an amazing point, that immunity was a word that first meant "free from" in the legal world. Then over time, the world of medicine and science labeled our internal defense mechanisms as the immune system. But if we are free from threats, as immunity implies, why must we have an entire immune defense system? This is a great question he poses and answers in this episode.
Dr. Ed Cohen is a Ph.D. in Modern Thought from Stanford and for the last three decades he has been an award-winning professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality at Rutgers University. At thirteen, he was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease—a chronic, incurable condition that nearly killed him in his early twenties. At his diagnosis, his doctors told him that the best he could hope for would be periods of remission. Unfortunately, doctors never mentioned healing as a possibility.
In his book On Learning to Heal, Cohen draws on fifty years of living with Crohn’s to consider how Western medicine’s turn from an “art of healing” toward
a “science of medicine” deeply affects both medical practitioners and their patients. He demonstrates that although medicine can now offer many seemingly
miraculous therapies, medicine is not and has never been the only way to enhance healing. Exploring his own path to healing, he argues that learning to
heal requires us to desire and value healing as a vital possibility. With this book, Cohen advocates reviving healing’s role for all those whose lives are
touched by illness.
You can connect with Dr. Cohen and purchase a copy of his book here:
https://healingcounsel.com/
https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-learning-to-heal
https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Heal-Medicine-Critical-Ethnography/dp/1478019328
https://www.instagram.com/healingcounsel/
https://twitter.com/Healing_Counsel
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As always you can find me, The Happy Life Planner, Hypnosis Products, and more at www.linktr.ee/girlwithaflare
For a 10% discount on all Hypnobabies Hypnosis Tracks use coupon code chrissycordingley