Mind cure Hickey book

Mind Cure

How Meditation Became Medicine

Wakoh Shannon Hickey

Shows that Americans and Europeans promoted meditation and yoga for physical and psychological healing a century earlier than is widely assumed

Explores the important early contributions that women and African Americans made to the development of American psychology and psychosomatic medicine

Traces previously overlooked confluences of Buddhist, Hindu, medical, African American, and women's history in America

Reflects critically on the contemporary mindfulness boom and its ethical, religious, social, and medical implications