Back Cover of Enriching Health: Pathways to Complementary Therapies

People are increasingly looking for alternatives to conventional medicine. This book reveals a shift from doctoring disease to enriching health. The use of alternatives expresses a shift from a disease centric to a health centric model in America. Both the disaffections with conventional medicine (cost, toxic side effects and mistakes) and the attractions to alternatives (holistic, more natural and empowering) help explain this cultural shift.

Obstacles on the pathway to health enrichment include overeating (portion distortion) and under exercising, causing toxic back-up in the body. Other obstacles include stress-producing workplaces, credit card debt and dependence on an Rx for a quick-fix (a pill for every ill’).

Offering readable material with graphics and practical insights, Enriching Health: Pathways to Complementary Therapies

• Examines why alternative therapies are gaining credence among MDs and consumers.
• Explains how the best of conventional and alternative therapies are being integrated.
• Explores how alternative therapies came of age in the decade of the1990s.
• Provides information on medical insurance plans offering alternative therapies.
• Predicts energy medicine will grow faster than other therapies.
  

A medical doctor wrote:

"With an uplifting and inspiring tone, Dr. Betz tells us how CAM therapies are gradually being accepted. It is exciting to learn how much progress has already been made made toward embracing CAM modalities... I commend Dr. Betz for bringing us the timely information presented in Enriching Health: Pathways to Complementary Therapies".

Janel L. Meric MD, President of Harmony Health and Wellness

Michael Betz, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Tennessee, taught the Sociology of Health for over 25 years and served on two hospital committees including End of Life Care for 12 years.

Health is not a commodity that can be purchased. In 1987, he dumped his university subsidized medical insurance because he felt it fostered an unhealthy dependency on outside experts who focused mostly on disease while failing to promote health. You can and should purchase disease-care services if you fail to promote health.