Human heart, cosmic heart : a doctor's quest to understand, treat, and prevent cardiovascular disease

Summary: "Thomas Cowan joined the Peace Corps in the mid-1970s for a two-year tour in Swaziland. There, he encountered the work of Rudolf Steiner and Weston A. Price, two men whose ideas would fascinate and challenge him for decades to come. Cowan returned from Swaziland, went to medical school, and established a practice. He raised his three children, suffered the setback of divorce, and struggled with a heart condition. He remained intrigued with Steiner's provocative claim that the heart is not a pump. Determined to practice medicine in a way that promoted healing rather than compounded ailments, Cowan dedicated himself to understanding whether Steiner's claim could possibly be true. Dr. Cowan offers up a daring claim: Not only was Steiner correct that the heart is not a pump, but our understanding of heart disease with its origins in the blood vessels is completely wrong, and is the reason heart disease remains the most common cause of death worldwide. Dr. Thomas Cowan presents a new way of understanding the body's most central organ."--Provided by publisher.