Rene Dubos Quotes About Health

Quotes about: Health

• Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual to function in a manner acceptable to himself and to the group of which he is a part.

  Rene Dubos

  Real, Health, Groups

• It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend ever-increasing sums for the control of disease.

  Rene Dubos

  Health, Civilization, Facts

• One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.

  Rene Dubos

  Health, Aberration, May

  René Jules Dubos (1987). “Mirage of Health: Utopias, Progress, and Biological Change”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

• The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

  Rene Dubos

  Healing, Health, Self

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