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Science and Whole Person Medicine: Enormous Potential in a New Relationship

Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University

A silent revolution has occurred in the most highlyindustrialized countries. This is the utilization and acceptanceof various healing practices (which for conveniencehas often been labeled as " alternative medicine,"a.k.a. " whole person healing") by an enormousfraction of the population. Moreover, this populationcohort is much wealthier and better educated than theaverage citizen. It is no longer possible for this generationin the Western world to ignore or denigrate themedicine and healing practices used by hundreds ofmillions in other cultures. What is obviously needed isa retreat from the innate skeptical reaction of much ofthe stance of western medicine, the development of amutual respect for other cultures and their achievements,and a genuinely open, scientific and wholisticapproach to the issues, especially in this context, toother practices of whole person healing.

Key Words: alternative medicine • scientific approach • whole person healing

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