Extending boundaries – Empowering individuals
Extending boundaries – Empowering individuals
by Thomas Hardtmuth, M.D. and Richard House, Ph.D.
ISBN 978-0-9528364-8-3, July 2022, Pb 148pp, retail £11.99.
In Beyond Mainstream Medicine, authors Thomas Hardtmuth and Richard House dive deeply into the very foundations of human well-being, exhaustively detailing what is wrong philosophically and clinically with the current prevailing biomedical paradigm of health and disease; how these shortcomings have been highlighted in the course of the Covid crisis; and what changes need to occur for the radical re-founding of a genuinely holistic understanding of health, illness and healing to occur.
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Beyond Mainstream Medicine has received many accolades and endorsements from medical, psychology and education professionals and has been very positively received by readers. It is an essential read for everyone contemplating how we move beyond the current profit driven medical model to one that puts a genuine concern for human health first.
A partial list of reader endorsements:
“With their publication, ‘Beyond Mainstream Medicine’, Thomas Hardtmuth and Richard House have presented a small masterpiece for which one can only be grateful… Particularly inspiring is the clear description of a necessary paradigm shift in medicine, in which each and every one of us can actively participate. For at the centre of this new paradigm for health is the individual human being with his or her special possibilities to strengthen his or her spiritual, emotional and physical health and thus his or her complex immune system.”
Michaela Glöckler, M.D.
“Thomas Hardtmuth and Richard House agree that mainstream bio-pharmaceutical medicine is in need of urgent reform, if not a revolution. In this searching dialogue, they dive deeply into the most fundamental assumptions and ontologies of illness, health and well-being, and offer pointers for how health systems need to change. Unmissable.”
Dr Christian Buckland, Psychotherapist
“This book by Thomas Hardtmuth and Richard House captures the spirit of the times. We urgently need a more humane medicine. A new medicine, in which the real human being with all his buried needs is seen in freedom and justice, in physical, soul and spiritual unity, in direct sensory perception, in social connectedness and in a higher consciousness, spiritually. I highly recommend Beyond Mainstream Medicine.”
Univ.-Prof. Dr Dr Christian Schubert, Psychoneuroimmunologist, University of Innsbruck, Austria
“Beyond Mainstream Medicine is a book I’ve long awaited. Allopathic medicine, sadly, has become fossilised around earlier beliefs rather than attuned to current research. What it once questioned it now takes as fact. The recent Covid crisis especially demonstrated this; according to a study by several US universities, Covid vaccines are more likely to put you in hospital than save you from it. Thomas Hardtmuth and Richard House not only illuminate philosophical and practice errors that undermine medicine, but suggest a way forward, which brings humanism and holistic vision inclusive of mind, body and spirit back into the medical fold. A must read for all public-facing health workers.”
Professor Paul Barber (Ph.D.), Bucharest, Romania
“In this book, two intellectual heavyweights – Thomas Hardtmuth and Richard House – have shone penetrating light onto the limited, narrow, yet currently dominant philosophical and theoretical assumptions and beliefs underpinning mainstream medicine and modernist science, also highlighting the vested interests, agendas and psycho-social realities that have got us here. They offer masterly analysis and critique of the damaging and self-defeating illusions from which paternalistic, reductionist biomedicine operates, while also articulating and envisioning new horizons of thinking and practice. This book fills me with hope that urgently needed paradigm change is possible, and I am grateful that holistic thinkers like Hardtmuth and House are helping to lead the way towards no less than an ‘evolution of human consciousness’.”
Dr Rachel Freeth, Counsellor, trainer, writer and former psychiatrist; author of Humanising Psychiatry and Mental Health Care, Gloucestershire, UK
“Really interesting read, despite the sometimes rather esoteric vocabulary. It was good to discover why many people disagreed with COVID vaccinations and, while it didn’t change my mind on that personally, it did give much food for thought about modern medical ethics.
As the title suggests, the book is wide-ranging and integrates science, philosophy, psychology and politics within its discussion of mainstream medicine. Many of the arguments are compelling and I learned a lot. Very much agree with Thomas Hardtmuth’s conclusion that ‘we need a radical decoupling of medical thinking from economic logic’.”
Sue Palmer, Educator, author of Toxic Childhood and Upstart
“I found your wonderful book Beyond Mainstream Medicine to be both enlightening and profoundly moving. The dialogue seemed like a flicker of truth and warmth amid what sometimes feels like the never-ending cacophony of nonsense. I found it a miraculous reading. The most in-depth, sane science, with a dash of much-needed spirituality, that I’ve read in a long time. A joy to read.”
Anna Dusseau, author of The Case for Home Schooling: free range education handbook