Reflections on healing from a nursing perspective

Levin ′s scholarly paper highlights the dichotomy between the narrow and unidimensional biomedical definition of healing that focuses primarily on the physical healing of a wound or lesions with what he defines as complementary medicine′s use that is multidimensional (occurs on many levels including p hysical, emotional and spiritual) and may be seen as an intervention, an outcome or state, and a process. Levin refers to complementary medicine′s view of healing as disturbing and unfortunate, in part because it lacks precision.

Source: Explore - April 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary Jo Kreitzer Source Type: research