Didi Pershouse is a healer living and practicing in a cozy small community in rural Vermont, surrounded by the natural world and its eloquent teachings. She uses acupuncture, herbs, the aromas from the kitchen in her home/office, the community at large, the biodiverse landscape around her - and perhaps most importantly her warm listening ear - as her trove of therapeutic modalities.
Reading The Ecology of Care is like sitting in Didi's living room having a chat and a cup of tea. Her friendly, articulate and flowing writing style invites you into her panoramic overview of our health dilemmas, personal and planetary. She addresses painful subjects gently and compassionately and offers long-forgotten alternatives that are as old as the human race. She takes on the daunting task of connecting all the pieces in our fractured modern puzzle to emerge with an ecology of health that connects our frontal lobes to our gut microbes to the air we breathe, the food we eat and the places we walk. Then she travels the dots to global warming, soils, and regenerating our life-support systems. Everything is truly, literally, connected to everything else. Our health is no different.
As she says about hunter-gatherer healing, "It's not the list of plants that one needs, nor even the list of illnesses that each plant treats - it's the living, ongoing relationships between the practitioner, the herbs, the patient, and the landscape that form a whole system of indigenous health care." Didi has woven a story of how we can re-connect to our ancient ways of health, including the health of Mother Earth.
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have the good fortune of knowing Didi personally as a colleague in restoring ecosystems, and as a trained naturopathic physician I deeply appreciate her essential community healing perspective that is so often missing in the offices of medical "professionals" - including alternative practitioners who would like to do better but don't quite know how. The Ecology of Care is a thoughtful and heartfelt roadmap for our perilous times.
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The Ecology of Care: Medicine, Agriculture, Money, and the Quiet Power of Human and Microbial Communities Paperback – December 10, 2015
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Didi Pershouse is the founder of the Center for Sustainable Medicine, where she developed a model for systems-based ecological medicine that restores health to individuals as well as the social and natural communities around them. Over the past 22 years, her health-care practice has expanded in its scope from treating individual patients to treating whole systems. In addition to raising two sons and seeing patients in Thetford Center, Vermont, she also travels and teaches around the continent with the Soil Carbon Coalition. She teaches about the interrelationships between healthy soils, shifting weather patterns, economic forces, and human health; trains community leaders in self-care and peer support; develops curricula about biological work and landscape function; and works with farmers and ranchers to restore the living systems that run the underground carbon and water cycles that make life on this planet possible.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR Peter Donovan is the founder of the Soil Carbon Coalition. He has herded sheep, played piano for ballet classes, and worked on cattle ranches, but he now spends most of his time touring North America in his school-bus home, facilitating workshops, and measuring changes in soil carbon and water cycles. The drawings in this book are from his travels. He has reported widely on innovative land managers; most of his articles can be found at managingwholes.com.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR Peter Donovan is the founder of the Soil Carbon Coalition. He has herded sheep, played piano for ballet classes, and worked on cattle ranches, but he now spends most of his time touring North America in his school-bus home, facilitating workshops, and measuring changes in soil carbon and water cycles. The drawings in this book are from his travels. He has reported widely on innovative land managers; most of his articles can be found at managingwholes.com.
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- Publisher : Mycelium Books; 1st edition (December 10, 2015)
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So many superlatives come to mind that it is hard to settle my mind enough, to a place where it is plausible. Make no mistake. Didi saves lives and her work is non-stop and her heart is the size of Kansas. A recipe for the evolution of our way of living is absolutely necessary for us all. For those who live in cities and suburbs, it may be hard to imagine her clinic. Sitting in a comfortable chair and having acupuncture, her little doggie in your lap, and fresh vegetables from her garden when you leave is healing on so many levels. She took my hand and held me in her arms when I wept after getting a terrible cancer diagnosis. Western medicine gave me a 10% chance. Didi helped me find a 100% chance. To care about dirt, air, hearts, food sources and spirit is the walk I have chosen. This book is a wonderful how to and a whole lot of why. I would love to see this book go into every medical school in the world. Thank you Didi, for your hard work and care for so many people, and for sharing your wisdom for all to read.
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Draws on a practitioner and citizen scientist's life experience and work to provide an integrated vision of health care, food, agriculture and climate - what they are and what they could be. If you do not yet see how all of these matters intersect, this is for you. And oh, the prose is nicely poetic at turns - worth looking for. This could become to human and environmental health what "A Sand County Almanac" is to environmentalism. Remember what Luther started with "95 Theses?" Read and consider. Carefully documented, like a scholarly publication, yet written for a a popular readership. You'll like it.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2016
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Pershouse's book is a timely look at health care in our country seen in comparison to the state of our world and the health of the earth as a whole. It is full of hopeful ideas that we must urgently move towards implementing to save ourselves as well as our environment--it is not to late, but we must take action. This is an important work, with eye opening tales and we will all be better for reading it.
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The analogy between health care and agriculture is thought provoking. We've practiced a more holisitic model of agriculture for a number of years, and she's spot on in terms of "sterile" modern industrial farming. Her stories about how small communities helped themselves through cooperative efforts should be must reads for rural city and county governments. I purchased another copy to pass around.
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2016
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Have your hi-lighter at hand! There are so many eye-opening gems in this book. From Ms. Pershouse’s stories about her grandfather’s specialty of performing lobotomies to her profound insight to how everything is connected (from the soil to bacteria in our intestinal tract), I found this book guiding me on a journey to see my life and world more clearly. Seeing clearly means recognizing the troubled state of affairs we find ourselves in, and then seeing a way out of this mess. Didi has done her homework very well, and leaves us with confidence that healing is within our hands.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2016
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I judge an impactful writer by my ability to retain what I read much after I have finished reading the last page. This book is so filled with knowledge, history, and an understanding of the whole picture, that it is constantly lingering in the background for me. Didi engages at first with her own personal story, one that so many of us can relate to when life isn't going so well. Then she weaves in her life discoveries, with factual history, and an insightful look at what we do on a daily basis, unexamined. A wholistic view of living on this planet. I have recommened it not only to my own accupucturist, but to others in the medical field as well. Kudos Didi, with a big thanks for walking the talk!
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