Esoteric Healing Traditions: A Conceptual Overview

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-112

  Levin, Jeff ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Healing; health; medicine; pathophysiology; religion; spirituality; treatment

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALLOPATHY; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ESOTERIC HEALING; HEALING; HEALTH CARE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; MAGIC; MASSAGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDITATION; MYSTICISM; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RELIGION; RITUAL; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MEDITATION; MIND-BODY AND RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; NATUROPATHY; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SHAMANISM; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 39749184115     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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