Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 89-96 , March 2006

Optimism

  • Larry Dossey, MD

      Affiliations

    • From The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness by Larry Dossey, MD. Copyright © 2006 by Larry Dossey. Published by Harmony Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

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doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2005.12.004

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 2, Issue 2 , Pages 89-96 , March 2006