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Is complementary medicine holistic?
1Centre for Community Care and Primary Health, Faculty of Business Management and Social Studies, University of Westminster, London.
Complementary Therapies in Nursing & Midwifery
|February 1, 1997
Abstract:
The term 'holism' is explored using both Smuts' original definition and that developed by the Gestalt theoreticians. It is compared to reductionism and the author posits that holism must encompass reductionalism if it is to study the relationship between parts and whole.