Reviews and Notes: Soulmedicine: Medical Challenges on Life's Uncertain Journey

JE Postley. 249 pages. Golden, CO: Love and Logic Pr; 1995. $14.95. ISBN 0-944634-33-8.

Ever read a book that you would like to like more than you do? I found Soulmedicine to be such a book.

The author, John Postley, a member of the faculty of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, is described on the book's cover as “a family doctor in New York City for over twenty-five years.” In his book he presents, in nontechnical language, a considered vision of how patients should seek (and, I guess, how physicians should provide) care in a world devoted to treatment. Many of the 13 chapters—including the opening chapter, which is about Postley's deep …