Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up - Tapa dura

"Farmacology...explains how sustainable farms serve as a model for a healthy human body...Soil is the star of this story. Its vigor is clearly connected to the vitality of the plants, animals, and human beings it supports...Think like a farmer, and you'll likely cultivate better personal health."--Booklist

"[Daphne Miller is] such a fearless, intelligent, and charming guide on the food-filled journey between medical and ecological sciences that by the end of Farmacology you won't just think that medical ecology is fascinating--you'll wonder how we managed to live without it for so long."--Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved

"In Farmacology, Daphne Miller expands the field of medicine from the classical boundaries of the symptom-cure concept toward a more complex and holistic approach that takes into account the tight balance between Man and Nature."--Carlo Petrini, founder of the International Slow Food Movement

"Sustainable agriculture and holistic medical practice find each other as soul mates...The issues raised deal with profound economic, social and cultural dilemmas...and Miller's hearty, personable writing style makes it a good read for travelers, lovers of character studies and medical and farming professionals alike."--Lou Fancher, Mercury News

"Miller steps outside medicine's orthodoxy to explore the connection between sustainable farming and healthy living...Working hands-on and also picking the brains of the farms' operators, [she] observed farmers taking a holistic...approach...that she has found to be too often missing in the modern practice of medicine."--Kirkus Reviews

Miller's journey begins in serendipity and remains alive to surprise...[The] web of associations...will surprise even those [who know] that healthy soils make for healthy people. It's startling to think that few if any doctor-authors have attempted this hybrid of field work...patient case histories...and conversations with scientists.--Acres U.S.A.

San Francisco Chronicle bestseller--San Francisco Chronicle

Some of Miller's discoveries are simple, others groundbreaking, but all feel important for their medical implications as well as for what they can teach us about our connection to other living creatures... Miller... delves deep into the science, translating dense medical text into practical information.--Orion Magazine

"Revealing and inspiring...a rewarding read."--Dr. Andrew Weil, author of 8 Weeks to Optimum Health and True Food

"An eloquent call for better systems of sustainable agriculture and humanistic health care. . .a fresh, original, and utterly charming book."--Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and author of What to Eat

A practicing physician and the author of The Jungle Effect, after spending time with a diverse group of farmers committed to sustainable agriculture, interweaves her discoveries with wisdom drawn from interviews with scientists, researchers, chefs, patients, fellow doctors and many others. 25,000 first printing.