ISSN 1538-1080
In medical training, humanity takes second place to scientific achievement. The realization that we are producing a generation of less than humane doctors has begun to trouble both medical educators and clinicians. Might the study of the humanities, especially the reading of literature, in medical training help doctors to be more humane? Some proponents certainly
-Paul Pearsall. The Hearts Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy: The New Findings About Cellular Memories and Their Role in the Mind/Body/Spirit Connection-Marc Ian Barasch. Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life-Andrew Newberg, Eugene DAquili, and Vince Rause. Why God Wont go Away: Brain Science and the biology
Abstract Prayer and spiritual healing have been researched over the last forty years. Spiritual awareness, a neglected aspect of much of this research, is finding its way into clinical practice in treatment of a variety of problems. It is a challenge to use spiritual healing in a wholistic and ethical manner.
Welcome to The International Journal of Healing and Caring – On Line. The IJHC is a reader-friendly forum for exploring issues of wholistic, whole-person care – focusing on harmonization of body, emotions, mind, relationships (with other people and with your environment) and spirit. Perspectives of caregivers as well as those of the recipients of treatments
My fascination with healing dates back to my high school years when a dear friend suffered third degree burns over 75 percent of his body. I watched his recuperation with the emergency life-saving treatments, the skin grafting, the physical rehabilitation, and the agony his spirit went through. These opened my eyes to a process that
In Western biomedicine, nutritional therapies have been proven cost-effective modes of treatment in such well-researched conditions as hypercholesterolemia (McGehee 1995) and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (Franz et al 1995). While patients are receptive to dietary advice from their doctors, that advice is seldom forthcoming in any great detail, as many physicians have minimal training in
All his life Peter had carried the pain about with him. Sometimes intense. sometimes no more than a dull ache. Sometimes for months at a time he was hardly aware of it, but it was always there. He knew that. It had a precise location, always the same, a spot below the ribs, an inch