Insights and Implications from the Science of Healing

The word “heal” is derived from the Middle English concept “hǣlan, or hal,” which means “to make sound or whole.” Medicine has long been characterized as a “healing” profession. As modern medicine became informed by science, physicians shifted their focus from caring for and “healing the sick” to diagnosis and treating the disease.1 With this shift, some have argued that healing the whole person may receive less attention in modern, conventional medicine while whole-person healing remains a central theme of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
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