Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 4, Issue 6 , Pages 341-352 , November 2008

Healing Research: What We Know and Don't Know

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 This essay is based on an address to the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, June 22, 2008, Boulder, CO.

PII: S1550-8307(08)00285-1

doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2008.09.009

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Volume 4, Issue 6 , Pages 341-352 , November 2008

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