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By Anne Harrington. 336 pp., illustrated. New York, W.W. Norton, 2008. $25.95. ISBN 978-0-393-06563-3.

Thirty years of practice have finally convinced me that the mind and body are indeed connected. As this fascinating book explains, the idea of these connections goes back a long way. The author, Anne Harrington, a historian of science, attempts to answer these questions: "Where do these stories of mind–body illness and mind–body healing come from? What is their relationship both to modern medicine on the one side and traditional religious and folk stories about illness on the other? What can their prominence in our culture today teach us about our own imperfectly secularized experiences of illness, the curious ways . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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