Modern society’s progression both technologically and socially has influenced how we relate with the medical world. This includes our understanding of health and healing as demonstrated by Larry Dossey’s three Eras of medicine. In his research, there is: Era 1 beginning in the mid 1800’s, included the observation that health and illness are “totally physical in nature and thus all therapies should be physical ones, such as surgical procedures or drugs.” (Dossey, n.d) For this Era, there is no separation between brain and mind. Era I focuses on “performing a procedure or providing a medication to fix the body physically”; Era 2, evolved in the 1950’s and expands on the previous premise when practitioners began to realize that emotions, thoughts
