Andrzej Szczeklik "Katharsis. On the healing power of nature and art".

Author: Andrzej Szczeklik Title: Katharsis: On the Healing Power of Nature and Art. Year of publication: 2002 Description: Medicine through the eyes of a physician and a humanist. This vividly and lightly presented collection of essays portrays medicine as a deeply humanistic science, whose origins and development over the centuries have served as a canvas for artists and philosophers, and a source of inspiration and progress. Although it is full of philosophical reflections, lofty metaphors, and explorations of physiological and biochemical complexities, Szczeklik’s work is not an intellectual treatise for the select few. It is a book worthy of attention from people familiar with culture and science in the broadest sense, as well as from those who simply aren’t afraid to think and broaden their horizons.