Böcker av Pierre Morin

Health and sickness are mystifying processes full of meaning and challenges. They are embedded in social and cultural environments that benefit some more than others and thus need us all to hone our social awareness and skills. They are also dreaming processes that require a new process-oriented intelligence and practice. Communal Medicine is about exploring the many intertwined experiences we have when we are getting sick or are facing illness. It is about understanding the lived experience of disease and the objective realities of medicine within their individual, social, cultural, dreaming, and spiritual contexts. Understanding the complex layers of a person's and community's health care experience will help health care providers and participants alike improve their own and their patients'/clients' physical, emotional, and social health.

Offering a new view and a fascinating understanding of coma states, this hope-filled work explains technology-driven insights and describes practices with which family members and caregivers can help promote recovery.

In Health-in-Sickness, Pierre Morin suggests that the classical approach to defining illness and health not only lacks the elixir perspective on disturbances, an approach that is suggested by alternative medicine, but in fact, also has an "opposite placebo" effect, in creating a sense of being victimized and at fault for having the symptom. His book contains many practical examples and is useful to both health practitioners as well as patients. First and foremost, it begins a long overdue conversation about the very concepts of health and sickness, and what is considered to be "normal." Morin's book is an important contribution to the broad transdisciplinary discussions regarding individual and collective well-being.