What is “Healing”?: Reflections on Diagnostic Criteria, Nosology, and Etiology
This paper examines the conceptual history and contemporary usages of the term “healing.” In response to longstanding definitional ambiguity, reflections are offered on what are termed the diagnostic criteria, nosology, and etiology of healing. First, a summary is provided of how healing has been defined within medicine. Second, the dimensionality of healing is discussed. Third, healing′s putative determinants are outlined. For biomedicine, healing mainly concerns repair of wounds or lesions and is unidimensional. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - May 11, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Jeff Levin Source Type: research
Extraordinary cases of miraculous healing
Having grown up in a household headed by the chairman of a neurosurgical training program (as well as having two grandfathers who were both general surgeons), I came to appreciate the aggressive focus on active intervention to alleviate disease. If asked to broadly categorize their purpose and activity in their chosen life careers, I would have readily offered up that all my primary male role models were “healers,” and that their work involved “healing” others. Inspired by the fulfillment I witnessed in their lives, I pursued a similar path in neurosurgery, which I viewed as a career in the “healing arts.” (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - May 11, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Eben Alexander Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
The definition of healing depends on how one defines health
It is a privilege and pleasure to comment on this thoughtful and thought-provoking article. It is wonderfully rich with explorations of the spectrum of meanings and uses for ‘healing′ in biomedical literature, nothing less than I would expect from this thoughtful and thorough author. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - May 11, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Daniel Benor Tags: COMMENTARY Source Type: research
Healing and what we know about it
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). (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - May 11, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Margaret Chesney Source Type: research
A response
Many thanks to the editors of Explore for their graciousness in publishing such a lengthy article. I am also grateful to the respondents who took the time to pen their thoughtful comments and reflections. My responses to their respective comments will follow, but first a little backstory about the article may be instructive. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - May 11, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Jeff Levin Source Type: research
Whole health/integrative health in the va: focusing on what matters to the veteran rather than what is the matter with them
For the past year, I have had the privilege to direct the Integrative Health Coordinating Center at the Veteran ′s Health Administration. The IHCC is a small office within the Office of Patient Centered Care& Cultural Transformation, led by Dr. Tracy Gaudet. Our work is to help develop clinical policies, educational initiatives, and research strategies to support the wider dissemination of complementary and integrative health approaches in the VA, within the context of the Whole Health approach to care which VA is adopting as a staple of its philosophy. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - May 11, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Benjamin Kligler, Nancy Cotter, Henri Roca, Michael Saenger Source Type: research
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Yoga Treatment For Chronic Non-Specific Low Back Pain (2017)
Wieland LS, Skoetz N, Pilkington K, Vempati R, D ׳Adamo CR, Berman BM. Yoga treatment for chronic non-specific low back pain. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2017, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD010671. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010671.pub2. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - April 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Alison Whitehead, Susan Gould Fogerite Tags: Yoga for low back pain Source Type: research
America ’s Deadly Opioid Epidemic From Which Everyone But the Users Profits
I will start where I started myself, eight years ago. On June 14, 2008, I read a research report and cited it that day in my daily web publication, Schwartzreport. The study was the work of the Florida Medical Examiners Commission. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - April 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Stephan A. Schwartz Tags: Schwartzreport Source Type: research
Healing: Moving Toward Health and Wholeness
Is healing primarily concerned with the repair of wounds and lesions, or can it be an intervention, an outcome, and a process? Dr. Jeff Levin suggests that the ambiguity of not having one clear definition for the word “healing” has serious implications for medical research and practice. He says that if the definition is not done carefully, then one must question the conclusions of studies on the subject of healing. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - April 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Bill Manahan Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
Consciousness and tdvp: welcome to a new world
TDVP is a work that will change mankind ′s future. It is a monumental work forcing obsolete preconceptions to crumble. This is a seismic shift in understanding the understanding process itself.1—Adrian Klein,biopsychophysicist and consciousness researcher (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - April 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Larry Dossey Tags: Explorations Source Type: research
Blumenthal receives international ethnopharmacologist of the year award
The Society for Ethnopharmacology-India (SFE-India) has presented its “SFE – Outstanding International Ethnopharmacologist Award – 2017” to Mark Blumenthal, founder and executive director of the nonprofit American Botanical Council (ABC). The award was given to Blumenthal at the annual meeting of the society and scientific conference in Surat, Gujarat, India, on February 23, 2017. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - April 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Bonnie Horrigan Tags: MATTERS OF NOTE Source Type: research
America ′s Deadly Opioid Epidemic from Which Everyone But the Users Profits
The Schwartzreport tracks emerging trends that will affect the world, particularly the United States. For EXPLORE it focuses on matters of health in the broadest sense of that term, including medical issues, changes in the biosphere, technology, and policy considerations, all of which will shape our culture and our lives. (Source: Explore)
Source: Explore - April 21, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Stephan A. Schwartz Source Type: research
