The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care (review)

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
Mike Saks
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
History Of ◽  
Holistic Health Care

The call to Hawaii: Holistic practitioners’ perspectives of their communicative practices of healing

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Geist-Martin ◽  
Catherine Becker ◽  
Summer Carnett ◽  
Katherine Slauta
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Interviews ◽  
Health Care Practices ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
Mutual Action

The big island of Hawaii has been named the healing island – a place with varied interpretations of healing, health, and a wide range of holistic health care practices. This research explores the perspectives of holistic providers about the communicative practices they believe are central to their interactions with patients. Intensive ethnographic interviews with 20 individuals revealed that they perceive their communication with clients as centered on four practices, specifically: (a) reciprocity – a mutual action or exchange in which both the practitioner and patient are equal partners in the healing process; (b) responsibility – the idea that, ultimately, people must heal themselves; (c) forgiveness – the notion that healing cannot progress if a person holds the burden of anger and pain; and (d) balance – the idea that it is possible to bring like and unlike things together in unity and harmony. The narratives revealed providers’ ontological assumptions about mind-body systems and the rationalities they seek to resist in their conversations with patients.

scholarly journals An analysis of referrals received by a psychiatric unit in a general hospital Part 1

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
M Dor ◽  
VJ Ehlers ◽  
MM Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Psychiatric Unit ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
To Receive

In order to receive holistic health care, patients requiring psychiatric care, need to be referred to psychiatric services.OpsommingTen einde holistiese gesondheidsorg te ontvang, moot pasiente, wat psigiatriese sorg benodig, na psigiatriese dienste verwys word. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.

scholarly journals Beyond a Generic Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Holistic Health Care- Conventional Medicine Continuum

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anske Robinson ◽  
Janice Chesters ◽  
Simon Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Conventional Medicine ◽  
Holistic Health ◽  
Natural Remedy ◽  
Health Care Beliefs ◽  
Holistic Health Care ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

This article explores whether complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) users view CAM as a unified concept or individualize the modalities. A survey about the beliefs and concerns surrounding the use of 22 CAM modalities was posted to a random sample of 1,308 people in five rural and two metropolitan localities in Victoria, Australia. The response rate was 40% (n = 459). Overall, 91% of respondents were found to either have used one CAM modality (85%, n = 386) or be open to future use (6%, n = 33). Respondents did not view CAM as a unified concept. Each modality was used by people with different characteristics and beliefs about health care. However, it was practical to divide the 22 CAM modalities into four categories that we have named natural remedy, wellness, accepted, and established modalities. The four categories lie along a set of continua extending from natural remedy modalities and ‘‘holistic health care’’ beliefs at one end to established modalities and a belief in the tenets of conventional medicine at the other. We were able to develop a model to show this diagrammatically.

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