Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: The making of a new medicine -- PART I. ORIGINS. Antiquity: the early origins of medicine -- Middle times: the gathering light -- Modernity and beyond: the temple of power -- PART II. PRINCIPLES. Holism and reductionism in medicine: reconciling the opposites -- The healing relationship: reflections on the clinical encounter -- The therapeutic aims of holistic medicine: restoring the body, empowering the mind -- Turning the medicine wheel: between paradigms -- Firming the foundations: ways of knowing -- Completing the circle: voices of renewal -- Glossary -- References -- Notes -- Index
Summary
Offers a systematic overview of traditional healing practices, the development of the Western biomedical model from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present, and the holistic philosophy which is the basis of complementary and alternative medicine in the West
