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Chapter 42 - Healing and Wellness

from Part IV - Wellness Interventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Paul Dieppe ,
Sarah Goldingay  and
Sara L. Warber
Edited by
Waguih William IsHak
Waguih William IsHak
Affiliation:
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Summary

Fritjof Capra and others have pointed out that contemporary healthcare often has difficulty with the phenomena of healing. However, as we shall see, this is not always the case.

In biomedical discourses, healing is generally used to describe the body’s intrinsic ability to mend a wound or a broken bone. But when complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners or the general public use the word they often mean something different and much more “holistic”; it may involve mending again, but mending of our whole selves, including concepts such as the (re)integration of body, mind, and soul [1].

The word “healing” can be used as a noun (e.g., “I have had healing”), a verb (e.g., “I am healing you”), or an adjective (e.g., “this is a healing environment”). Furthermore, it can be used to refer to individuals, to groups and communities, to animals and plants, to the environment, or the whole world.

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The Handbook of Wellness Medicine , pp. 504 - 514
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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