Book in Progress from Claire Monod Cassidy
Six Medicines, Six Gifts
East Asian Medicine
Shamanic Healing
Biomedicine
Chiropractic
Homeopathy
Christian Science
About the book
For more information, please contact Claire at WindPath@cassidy.net
Pulling together all I have learned about medical care and human behavior over my career, I am writing Six Medicines, Six Gifts, Steps to a Plural Medicine, a book aimed at educated general readers, with potential as a textbook. It will have 14 chapters. The first seven provide a ‘toolbox’ that offers guidance on how to analyze medical systems. The next four discuss six different yet comparable medical systems (East Asian Medicine, shamanic healing, biomedicine, chiropractic, homeopathy, Christian Science). These are followed by a chapter that compares the six, and a chapter that discusses potential for creating an effective plural national medical system for the United States. The last chapter is addressed to patients and encourages self-advocacy.
Research interests
How medical practitioners understand their work—studied via historical and in-depth interview research with acupuncturists, chiropractors, biomedical practitioners, Christian Science practitioners, and more. Variously published.
How the Medicines of the world can be fruitfully and accurately compared, with the goal of improved understanding and creating the potential for a functional plural Medicine in the U.S. The underlying philosophies of various Medicines.
Teamwork on the uses of complexity research as applied to Medicines such as East Asian Medicine, Ayurveda, and others. Online course for acupuncturists forthcoming.
Member Scientific Advisor Board for Five Point Acupuncture phone app designed to reduce distress in cancer patients, using self-taught acupressure.
Claire M. Cassidy 