Abstract

: Holistic health principles, practices, personnel, programs, and problems comprise the ingredients of the movement of holistic health as described in this book. Using medical anthropology as its main perspective, the text is written with health practitioners in mind, to provide a contract of an interrelated physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional view of healing with that of the established scientific view: that humans are composed of reducible parts and that medicine's job is to find causes of malfunctioning in these parts. Public health issues such as quality care, cost, and the role of holistic health, are another focus of the book. Background information and history on holistic health, including philosophy and history, practices, functioning health centers, clientele characteristics, and trends favoring holistic health development are some of the topics discussed. A glossary and extensive bibliography are included as well as self-tests on wellness and social readjustments..