In this deeply personal and inspiring book, Dr. John Diamond, M.D., past President of The International Academy of Preventive Medicine, draws on his over forty years of experience in medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine, the humanities, holistic healing, and the arts to offer a completely new perspective on disease. Dr. Diamond encourages us to go beyond all disease to a place of wholeness and healing- through the disease to the sufferer's soul - using his mother's Alzheimer's as an example. Here is a new philosophy for everyone which embraces all disease and all of life.;In this brilliant book, written from his deeply touching personal and professional experiences, Dr. John Diamond illuminates the truth that altruism through the arts is perhaps the key to a good life and a good death.; Richard A. Lippin, M.D., Founder, International Arts-Medicine Association80pp