Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing

by John Robbins

Reclaiming Our Health is best-selling author John Robbins biggest and most important book to date. Elaborately researched and fluidly written, Reclaiming Our Health is a provocative and crystal-clear commentary on one of the most complex issues facing America todaynational health care. In an epic look at the human and financial consequences of the polarization of traditional and alternative medicine, John Robbins calls for nothing short of a revolution in the basic beliefs on which traditional health care is provided. Robbins has written a masterpiece that will be as popular with people unhappy with the medical establishment as Diet for a New America is with critics of the meat industry. Although we spend $1 trillion each year on health care, the toll in human suffering from degenerative disease continues to rise and many in our country cannot afford basic health care. Meanwhile, women are growing increasingly frustrated with the care they receive from a male-dominated system; and the incidence of dangerous communicable diseases is growing. There are answers to these problems and the myriad others that we face, but the dogmatic and monopolistic beliefs held by modern medicine are preventing us from finding the. Reclaiming Our Health presents a brilliant, refreshing, and uplifting new vision of what health care might be.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction

432 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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John Robbins was an American author, who popularized the links among nutrition, environmentalism, and animal rights.
He was the author of the 1987 Diet for a New America, an exposé on connections between diet, physical health, animal cruelty, and environmentalism. Robbins founded the organization EarthSave in 1988 and co-founded the Food Revolution Network with his son, Ocean, in 2011. He was a leading voice in the plant-based movement.

Reviews

[Elizabeth Good · Rating 3 out of 5]

An indictment of the politics of medicine, filled with Robbin's hard-hitting incisive manner of penning zingers. There is also a wonderful exploration of the partnership rather than dominator model for medicine (and actually across many social systems). Dominator was used here as more accurate and expansive vocabulary than patriarchy, which is the word many of us may know the beast by...

Unfortunately however, Robbins (whom I greatly respected until his passing last year), here leaves out numerous pertinent aspects to instead push over and again a touchy-feely agenda which is not written about concisely nor usefully. He tries to make it a flowing narrative from each topic he wishes to address to the next, but instead if just feels choppy and hard to read.

[Andy Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Robbins' updated version of A Diet For A New America. Compelling research to support his passionate position on diet. It's hard to overstate how readable and enjoyable this great work of nonfiction really is. John Robbins is truly a genius.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

My eyebrows went up on one claim about the result of a controlled study of "therapeutic touch." I checked the citation-- it was to an unpublished source and the researcher is discredited. So I still wonder why anyone would want to pay someone to wave hands around in the air when they could get a massage instead. But mostly I wonder why Robbins includes hand waving in this book.

[Liaken · Rating 5 out of 5]

While this book is somewhat on the fanatic side of things, the author has done a good job of collecting his research and making it accessible to the average reader. This book has influenced many of my friends to go for a midwife rather than an ob-gyn for their pregnancies and births.

[Lydel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A "must-read" for anyone who wants to educate themselves about our medical system. You will be both appalled and uplifted--appalled at what has happened then and now; uplifted by the
alternatives that are out there. There is hope. As always, John Robbins writes with love in his heart.

[Adrienne Carmichael · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my "favorites" shelf... an expose on American medicine and the AMA.
Includes the witchhunts of the AMA after midwives.
John Robbins says, Doctors will come down from their thrones when we get off our knees.
A necessary book to inform yourself what to be aware of regarding western medicine.

[Sjoen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read expose of the follies of the current medical model. I recommend it for those who want to take responsibility for their own health.

[Angeline · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found a lot of thought provoking stuff in this book when I was pregnant for the first time. Thanks for giving it to me Lia!

[Penny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic info on midwives, menopause, the AMA, and fighting cancer by alternative means. It's an important message.

[Dayna Colvin · Rating 5 out of 5]

John Robbins' "Reclaiming Our Health" is a very poignant, gentle, wise, courageous eye opening account into the truth about the medical industry.

[Karina M. Bishop · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really only liked the hospital analogy at the beginning. Way too much time spent on female reproduction.