The Canadian sociologist, Irving Goffman, developed a method
for analyzing experience. That technique is known as “framing analysis,” and,
among other things, it involves a process of critically reflecting on the way
in which actions, ideas, images, and so on are presented by someone.
The current book offers its own inimitable exercise in
framing analysis concerning allopathic medicine. More specifically, the pages
of Follow the What? – An Introduction
seek to explore a variety of ways in which experience might be organized – that
is, ways which involve framing ideas concerning the nature of experience – that
seek to place one’s relationship with the issue of health in a very different
sort of hermeneutical context than the proponents of allopathic medicine
normally might be inclined to do. As such, the material in this book is intended
to induce a reader to consider how different conceptual lenses, filters, and
the like might alter how one understands or goes about engaging the nature of
one’s relationship with reality – especially one’s lived reality as a
biological being.
Among the topics to be explored are: Framing analysis; technocracy;
the research of Louis Pasteur, Antoine Béchamp, Günther
Enderlein, Royal Rife and Gaston Naessens; monomorphism; pleiomorphism; germ theory
versus terrain theory; the alleged great influenza of 1918-19; virology;
immunology; vaccinology; smallpox research; epigenetics; the resonance effect;
frequency following behavior; energy; fields; quantum dynamics; zero-point
energy; transduction; some of the work of Rupert Sheldrake on morphogenesis;
polio research; the swine flu phenomenon of 1976; the National Childhood
Vaccine Injury Act of 1786; the PREP act of 2005, the Supreme Court decision in
the 1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts case; rights; public health, and issues of
constitutionality.
Follow The What? An Introduction
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