Medicine And The Mind

Medicine and the MindMiracles happen all the time. Doctors call them spontaneous remissions.In 1964, Norman Cousins, then editor of Saturday Review, exhausted himself in Russia as chairman of an American delegation on cultural exchange and, upon returning to America, fell critically ill with ankylosing spondylitis, a degenerative disease of the connective tissues in the spine. The glue that bound his cells together was disintegrating. Cousins, one of the most active and respected humanists of ou...