Mixed Signals: Chemical Messengers in the New AgeHugh Crone Publishing, 2001 - 152 pages Text of medical and New Age theory. Examines the body's chemical messengers and how they respond to stress, and the relationships between science, medicine and religion. Author is a scientific researcher who has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. He has written two previous books, 'Chemicals and Society' and 'Banning Chemical Weapons'. |
Contents
the Black Tunnel and the | 1 |
Control | 11 |
Chemicals as we know them and How they | 23 |
This Uncertain World | 35 |
Stress and its Messengers | 47 |
Religion and Other Opiums | 63 |
Orthodoxy and | 73 |
Natures | 81 |
Common terms and phrases
acetylcholine action activity adrenaline Agent Orange aggression alcohol allostasis alternative medicine animal anxiety atropine Australia balance behaviour beliefs Black Tunnel blood body brain caffeine cancer cause cell chemical messenger system chemical messengers chemical transmitters chronic complex concept cortisol cults definition developed dioxin discussion disease dose drink Duboisia effects electrical environment example exposure factors Figure function glands glucocorticoids groups Gulf War syndrome hazard heart herbal medicine homoeopathic hormones human imbalances increasing individual influence insecticide knowledge matter mechanisms mind muscle natural nervous system nicotine normal oestrogens organs orthodox medicine Paracelsus patient perception person pharmaceutical physical plants poisons population practice problems psychological pyramidology pyridostigmine Rainbow Bridge reality receptor recognised release religion response result risk serotonin signals situation social drugs society specific stress synapse synthetic tetrodotoxin THEME CHAPTER topic toxic umbilicology uncertainty veterans Vietnam zone of interpretation