Immaculata De Vivo, Daniel Lumera

The Biology of Kindness

Six Daily Choices for Health, Well-Being, and Longevity
Übersetzer: de Vivo, Fabio

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Originally published as Biologia della gentilezza"--Title page verso.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780262547659
• ISBN-10: 0262547651
• Artikelnr.: 68743673

Autorenporträt

Immaculata De Vivo is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research focuses on how genetic variants interact with the environment to influence susceptibility to hormonal cancers, especially endometrial cancer. Daniel Lumera is a naturalist biologist, an expert in the sciences of well-being and quality of life and a former monk for 11 years who studied with Anthony Elenjimittam, a direct disciple of Gandhi.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
TO THE READER xi
PREFACE xiii
I ATTRIBUTES 1
1 KINDNESS 3
2 TELOMERES 13
3 OPTIMISM 33
4 FORGIVENESS AND GRATITUDE 43
5 THE SCIENCE OF FORGIVENESS AND GRATITUDE 59
6 HAPPINESS 67
7 THE SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS 85
II INSTRUMENTS 91
8 THE QUALITY OF RELATIONSHIPS 93
9 THE SCIENCE OF RELATIONSHIPS 105
10 NUTRITION: HEALTH COMES WITH EATING 115
11 ON THE WAY TO WELL-BEING 127
12 THE POWER OF THE MIND 135
13 MEDITATE, PEOPLE, MEDITATE 155
14 THE SCIENCE OF MEDITATION 169
15 MUSIC AND SOUND: HEALTH, WELL-BEING, AND LONGEVITY 177
16 THE SCIENCE OF MUSIC 189
17 NATURE HEALS 197
18 NATURE AND WELL-BEING 215
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 219
BIBLIOGRAPHY 221