World Hypotheses and the Evolution of Integrative Medicine: Combining Categorical Diagnoses and Cause-Effect Interventions with Whole Systems Research and Nonvisualizable (Seemingly "Impossible") Healing

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 509-514

  Schwartz, Gary E ^a   Schloss, Ernest P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CAM; healing; implicit processes; integrative medicine; theories

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATHY; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALING; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAITH HEALING; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALING; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS);

EID: 33750957452     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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