Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind over Body

The New York Times Bestseller
Shortlisted for The Royal Society Science Book Prize
Longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize

Although I believe that the alternative medicine advocates are deluded with their talk of water memory and healing energy fields, I don’t think the sceptics have got it completely right either. I started to write this book because I wondered whether they, along with conventional doctors are missing a vital ingredient in physical health; an omission that’s contributing to the rise of chronic disease and sending millions of sane, intelligent people to alternative practitioners. I’m talking, of course, about the mind.

All in the mind?

Can meditation fend off dementia?

Can the smell of lavender affect the immune system?

Can your thoughts ease physical pain?

In Cure, award-winning science writer Jo Marchant travels the world to meet the physicians, patients and researchers on the cutting edge of mind-body medicine. Asking how the brain can heal the body and how we can all make changes to keep ourselves healthier.

‘The author has a gift for writing that is both clear and vivid, and communicates complex ideas in a way that is comprehensible and uncondescending.’ – The Independent