Personalized Medicine

Marie-Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre completed a DEA in economic and business law at the Pantheon Sorbonne and joined the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She initiated and developed fiction for television and cinema before codirecting the company Télé Images Créations. She is on the committees of the Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Hayward Gallery in London.Julian Barker is the author of The Medicinal Flora of Britain and Northwestern Europe and History, Philosophy and Medicine: Phytotherapy in Context. He started his training as a herbalist in North and Central America then returned to Britain as an apprentice herb grower at Suffolk Herbs and joined the first cohort at the School of Herbal Medicine. He became a member of NIMH in 1982 and opened a multidisciplinary clinic in Brighton where he ran a training clinic until 2009. He has served on NIMH’s Accreditation Board since 1998. Julian taught botany at the School of Herbal Medicine for over twenty years, and supervised BSc dissertations and taught philosophy on the MSc course in herbal medicine at the University of East London.

• PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITIONTRANSLATOR’S PREFACEPREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITIONFOREWORDINTRODUCTION - A patient like you: why this book can answer your questions about your healthCHAPTER ONE - The doctor takes up the story: early sense of fulfillment as a junior doctorCHAPTER TWO - Is evidence-based medicine supported by evidence?CHAPTER THREE - A true terrain-based medicine: a new hope for patientsCHAPTER FOUR - Behind the closed doors of the exam roomCHAPTER FIVE - What type of terrain are you?CHAPTER SIX - Medicinal plants: real promise or false dawn?CHAPTER SEVEN - The growing international influence of clinical phytotherapyCHAPTER EIGHT - Debate surrounding the diseases of civilizationCHAPTER NINE - Carol’s case: metastatic breast cancerCHAPTER TEN - Cancer: a troubling phenomenonCONCLUSIONAPPENDIX ONE - Endocrine disruptors, a danger for every one of usAPPENDIX TWO - Sources of scientific reviews of medicinal plantsACKNOWLEDGMENTSNOTESINDEX