Holism

3. Traditional Chinese Medicine: The Human Dimension Leung holds a PhD in Health Sociology and currently works as a clinician in Queensland Government in Australia. She grew up in Macau and Hong Kong where TCM was an integral part of people’s daily life. Therefore, her research is from a perspective of social science, emphasising the human expression and connection via TCM, in order to present the best core values of Chinese culture (p. viii). Her primary sources are the interviews with 48…

nurse to view the patient as a whole, as opposed to focusing in on one small aspect. By viewing the entire person, we are able to provide spiritual, medical, and any other type of care that may be necessary in aiding the recovery of our patients. “Holism involves studying and understanding the interrelationships of the bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions of the person, recognizing that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” (Dossey, 2010, p.14), which further emphasizes that by…

Science coming from the Latin word Scientia, meaning “knowledge,” is a systematic structure that builds and organizes knowledge from testable explanations and predictions about the universe. The nature of scientific progress and the rationality of scientific change lies between Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. The two prominent philosophers of the 20th century had very distinct viewpoints of science which led to countless debates. One of them, which I believe to be the most intriguing, was the…

Title Name Class Introduction A culture according to Terry Eagleton (2016) is a complex whole of society. Culture includes the society's identity, language, values, beliefs, law, customs, and cuisines. It's the social norms and behaviors that are found in the human society. It's a concept central in anthropology that encompasses a range of phenomena's transmitted through the social learning in the human society. It is a sum of customs, attitudes, and beliefs distinguished from one…

Psychodynamic Approaches Comparison Essay Psychodynamics is the psychology of mental or emotional forces or processes developing especially in early childhood and their effects on behavior and mental states (Merriam Webster Incorporated, 2017). There are three main factors in psychodynamics such as, Psychoanalysis, Analytical and Individual theories that help treat a client or patient. Many counselors and therapist utilize a variety or psychodynamic approaches because not one client or…

Your eyes are the door to your soul”, there many poems with these phrase, many believe that to trust someone you just must look into their eyes, and maybe that is truth. But to know from where someone came from, how they live and how they died, their eyes will not help because when we died they close forever, and in that moment when not even our faces are recognizable the truth about ourselves lies in our bones. People often think that our bones are not more than a part of our bodies that help…

the principle strengthens my practice, and continued practice strengthens my understanding of the principle. Humanization in nursing implies mudita, the nurse’s efforts to affirm the patient in her abilities and to find joy in her restored sense of holism. The idea of mudita has provided me with insight into various parallels to the role of a nurse: a cheerleader, a mother figure, or a host, among them. The nurse-as-cheerleader sees, believes in, and values the strengths, abilities, and…

Before the 1700 's, childbirth was primarily a domestic event, attended by midwives and female relatives. However, it has drastically changed as a technological approach to childbirth gained a momentum in the Western world. With each new technological invention, came new ways to test and analyze the process of a childbirth. The strong push towards utilizing precautionary medical procedures during childbirth - such as electronic fetal monitoring, amniocentesis, epidurals and C-section- and…

Introduction Holism defined by the American Holistic Nurses Association as a “state of harmony among body, mind, emotions and spirit within an ever-changing environment” (Dossey, 2012). In order to form a plan of care that will be effective for patients, the whole person must be identified and not only the diseases. The Holistic Nursing approach is used for better outcomes for the patients. The traditional nursing process looks at diseases in a very linear manner; where the main focus is the…

medical cosmology thesis is driven by two fundamental ideas, firstly the control over the production of medical knowledge shifted from the patient towards medical investigators, changing the discourse of medical theory from an integrated conception of holism to that of reducing a patient to a constellation of molecules. Secondly, as control over the occupational group of medical investigators…