Norman Cousins Research Paper

Norman Cousins and Albert Schweitzer
″Google″ famous people and you would get a number of web addresses listing names of musicians, politicians, scientists, writers, painters, etc. Usually, these personalities’ fame would have been the result of one particular skill. However, every so often, we may come across certain people who are only famous to those who’ve had the opportunity to know about them due to this or that circumstance. Norman Cousins and Albert Schweitzer are two such famous people, the first of the twentieth century, the second of late nineteenth century. Their achievements are important because their blend of skills enabled information to turn into collective awareness in different domains such as medicine, world peace, and
In his old ages, he experienced illness symptoms that were diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Cousins was well documented on the power of positive thinking and positive emotions and, when he saw that traditional medicine was of no use in alleviating the illness, let along cure it, he decided to succumb to positive emotions himself and load his body with vitamin C. The result manifested itself with Cousins having lived years more than what the doctors had given him. He shared his personal experience of overcoming a disease through laughter, courage and perseverance in his book Anatomy of an Illness. He covered everything in it, from the relationship he developed with his personal doctor to how he went along with the holistic process. Now, we may be skeptical to believe such an experience is real when in fact we should not be, since there are so many cases similar to that of Cousins and we all know about the Placebo effect, as well. In this respect, when we are able to set aside any skepticism, Norman Cousins’ story becomes truly motivational because, living in an age when pharmaceutical industry