Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork

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Summary: Perfection!
Review: Absolutely the best bodywork book I've ever read, bar none. I read the first edition of this book about 15 years ago, and it was a big eye-opener for me; I saw the body in a whole new light, it gave me things to think about and apply for years. I wish Deane Juhan would write a lot more books.

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Summary: Great read for anyone interested in healthcare and bodywork
Review: Great overview of human anatomy and physiology from an integrative perspective. Brings together a lot of scientific information in an easily understood and relevant fashion that particularly explains many aspects of physiology as they apply to massage and bodywork.

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Summary: a must-to-be-read for all bodyworkers
Review: I am a professional bodyworker and the reading of Job's Body enlighted my work. It's a pity that this book is only published in English and German. I always recommend it to all my students of massage and anatomy.

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Summary: Fascinating and Enlightening!
Review: I am wanting to become a massage therapist, and I read this book and felt even more intigued to hurry up and start school. I want to learn more about all types of massage therapy and this book has so much insight and I give it TWO thubms up!

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Summary: Great read for anyone interested in healthcare and bodywork
Review: Interesting perspective on how the human body is put together. Well-written and enjoyable to read, yet full of detailed descriptions.

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Summary: Job's Body
Review: Job's Body is theoretical rather than practical. It makes one aware of many interesting ideas and theories not normally encountered. It is like a summary of the author's research so expands the readers general awareness.

On the negative side, the author either has an evangelistic zeal which he indulges at the readers' expense or he fails to distinguish between his belief system and his science. The book is laced with distracting and irrelevant intrusions of Darwinian type evolutionism, which, for someone who has nothing like enough faith to accept the hypothesis, makes constantly having to separate the religious junk from the science very tedious. It spoilt the book for me.

Otherwise, apart from being rather wordy and containing some repetitive grammatical errors, (quite out of place in what is otherwise a well presented and scholarly work), which I would have expected the publisher's proof reader to have weeded out, the book makes a fair contribution to the breadth of one's concepts.

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Summary: Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork
Review: This Book is Pure Poetry of the Human Anatomy, Not your average A&P Book, Reading this book is like reading a good Novel.

Rating:
Summary: Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork
Review: This Book is Pure Poetry of the Human Anatomy, Not your average A&P Book, Reading this book is like reading a good Novel.