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BR74S8 - Alternative medicine and holism
Brockwood Park, UK - 17 October 1974
Seminar 8
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Summary
Introductory talk given by Elizabeth Ferris (Medical Doctor).
Elizabeth Ferris: What is alternative medicine?
EF: The notion of health and disease perpetrated by germ theory became an essential part of the background of treatment and cure, so the system perpetrated itself.
EF: How can we be compassionate to a part of a person?
EF: If health is wholeness then can we say that disease is in some way non-wholeness?
David Bohm: We can’t understand the whole without bringing in feeling as well as the intellect. It requires the whole of a person to understand the whole.
David Peat: Looking at the whole person and taking the view that the disease and the person are one, where exactly do you draw the whole?
David Shainberg: If we understand what we mean by holism, we will move to a different perspective, a deeper ground, not in terms of action and reaction.