Beyond Mainstream Medicine: Dialogue towards a New Paradigm for Health

Dr. med. Thomas Hardtmuth is a specialist in general surgery/thoracic surgery, freelance author, and long-time lecturer in health sciences and social medicine at the Baden-Wurttemberg University of Applied Sciences. He studied medicine at the TU and LMU Munich. He has been working as a doctor in various clinics in southern Germany since 1985, most recently as senior physician for general surgery and thoracic surgery at the Heidenheim Clinic. Virology and the role of viruses in nature and evolution is an area of research specialisation. Dr Hardtmuth has published numerous articles and books, most in German. Richard House, MA [Oxon], Ph.D. is a chartered psychologist and freelance educational consultant/campaigner in Stroud, UK. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood at the University of Winchester and lectured in psychotherapy and psychology at the University of Roehampton. He has published several books on education, as well as numerous articles and academic papers. He is editor of Self and Society: International Journal of Humanistic, Existential and Transpersonal Psychology.

"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 delve 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.....; "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, soul and physical health and thus his or her complex immune system." Michaela Gloeckler, M.D. -----; “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

• Preface by Michaela Gloeckler7,Foreword9,Introduction: Corona in context11,Biomechanistic Ideology 14,The Enemy Image of Micro-organisms19,Financial System 22,Commercialisation of Health Care 27,Ecological Crisis 30,Media Psycho-techniques 35,The authoritarian nature of modern science 40,The Dialogue50,References128,Index137,About the authors142,Acknowledgements145.