Holistic Medicine

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Last May, in Denver, the American Holistic Medical Association (AHMA) held its first annual session. In December, at its winter scientific meeting in Las Vegas, the American Medical Association sponsored a symposium on "Holistic Medicine and Health Care." Although "holistic medicine" (sometimes spelled "wholistic") is not yet listed in the Index Medicus, there is a growing literature on the subject, and some people espouse it fervently as an important new development in the health-care field.Dorland's says that "holistic" means "considering man as a functioning whole," which seems to fit with the AHMA's description of itself as an organization . . .