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abc Francesca Diebschlag has been practicing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for over ten years. She has served on the faculty of the International College of Oriental Medicine (UK), where she was Director of Research, and of the London School of TCM, as well as lecturing at various other colleges of alternative medicine in the UK and Ireland. She holds a research degree in Complementary Health Studies from the University of Exeter, where her dissertation was on attempts to control for the placebo effect in trials of acupuncture. Having spent several years exploring conceptual parallels between the sciences of complexity and the traditional Chinese model of the human person, her current field of inquiry involves mind-body holism and organicity. She works from home in Sussex, where she lives with her husband, the painter Hans Diebschlag, and their son.
Dia L. Michels' latest book, Milk, Money & Madness: The Culture and Politics
of Breastfeeding, was released in December 1995 by Bergin & Garvey.
Dr. Michael Latham, Professor of International Nutrition at Cornell University
praises it as "highly interesting and hugely provocative." Dia's first book,
A Woman's Guide to Yeast Infections (Pocket Books), has been helping
women since 1992. An internationally published science writer, Dia has written
for Parenting, Family Fun, and Mothering Magazines, The
Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The San Jose Mercury News, The
Miami Herald, The (Singapore) Straits Times, and Ode (The Netherlands).
She is currently Vice President of Washington Independent Writers, and a member
of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Women's National Book
Association, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and the
Literary Friends of the DC Public Library. A popular speaker, Dia lectures frequently
at libraries, schools, colleges, and conferences. She has been a guest on radio
talk shows all over the country, and was heard talking about breastfeeding recently
on "Marketplace," National Public Radio's business show. A native of Los Angeles,
she is a graduate of Chadwick School. While working toward her Economics degree
at Brandeis University, she studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Institute
de France. She lives on in Washington, DC with her husband, a physicist with
NASA, and their two children. Since becoming a mother, she has shifted her focus
to writing science books for kids. Her commitment to women's health begins at
home and includes strength training, bicycling, and walking. During an earlier
aerobics phase, she designed and patented SuperBra, a sports/nursing bra for
buxom women. For further information, contact her at: Dia L. Michels P. O.
Box 15348 Washington, DC 20003-0348
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abc Ariel is a Pagan Shaman Priestess, Surrealist
Artist, Anarchist, Psychic Teacher and Healer, Initiated Maya Diviner, and Bilingual
Vagabond Poet. Ariel advocates Schizophrenics are Shamans, Indigenous
Technology is Sacred, and Earth Rights First. Originally from
California; she traveled extensively in Latin America; lived in remote villages,
learning indigenous languages, magic, and art. Now she lives in Austin working
on a book which is Spiritual/Political/Art: A critique of technocracy and commonly-held
views of reality. Currently reading palms and tarot, performing psychic healing
and purification ceremonies in Austin. Poetry and Prose formerly published
by Shambhala Publications. Her art has been sold in galleries in Mexico, Guatemala
and Ecuador.
http://www.noharmm.org/home.htm
abc Tim Hammond is a grassroots human rights activist
who has been involved in numerous social change movements. As a teenager conscientiously
opposed to fighting in Vietnam, he wrote copious letters to Congress urging
an immediate end to the war. He has been committed to Congressional passage
of the Peace Tax Fund Bill, which would re-direct the military portion of one's
taxes (currently 50% of every dollar spent by the U.S. government) toward life-sustaining
human services. He was active in raising public consciousness about women's
rights and the need for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). In 1987 he was among
hundreds of men and women arrested on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to
protest its "Hardwick" decision, which upheld states' rights to legislate private
sexual behavior among consenting adults in their own home. He is a member of
the Children's Rights Network of Amnesty International/USA and a member
of the National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization.
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Jonathan Treasure, M.A., M.N.I.M.H., A.H.G., is an English medical herbalist
currently living in and practising in Eugene, Oregon. Originally he studied
Medical Sciences instead of Botany at Cambridge University, was in medical research
at Harvard Medical School, later qualifying from the UK School of Phytotherapy
after an interim career in graphics. He is an Editor of the US Journal Medical
Herbalism, and a regular contributor to the European Journal of Herbal Medicine
and has contributed to the American Herbal Pharmacoepia. He has lectured at
several schools of herbalism in the USA, including Michael Moore's South West
School in Arizona, The National College of Phytotherapy in New Mexico, where
he was also Clinical Director, and as a guest at The National College of Naturopathic
Medicine in Portland. His clinical (and theoretical) interests are in developing
a practical constitutional physiology for western herbal theraputics. Generally
reclusive, he can often be found on a lightweight bicycle around Eugene, trying
to figure out how the English roadside weeds grew so darn huge.