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The rabbit effect : live longer, happier, and healthier with the groundbreaking science of kindness
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : Atria Books, 2019.
Physical Description
xxvi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
For all of its rigor and science, medicine is full of mysteries that doctors and research cannot explain. Patients who are biologically healthy, but feel ill. Patients who are biologically ill, but feel healthy. In 1978, an experiment designed to establish the relationship between high blood cholesterol and heart health in rabbits discovered that kindness-- in the form of a particularly nurturing post-doc who pet and spoke to the lab rabbits as she fed them-- made the difference between a heart attack and a healthy heart. Harding presents research that shows love, friendship, community, life's purpose, and our environment can have a greater impact on our health than anything that happens in the doctor's office.
Contents
- Introduction: What are we missing in medicine?
- The hidden factors. The hidden factors of health ; One-on-one: your intimate relationships ; Social ties: your community ; Work: What you do ; Education: learning your purpose ; Neighborhood: live and play ; Fairness: living by the Golden Rule ; Environmental influences: the power of compassion
- Essentials of health. The mind-body link: individual health ; All of us (trust): collective health
- Conclusion: The ripple effect: getting to kindness
- Afterword: The enduring mystery.