When is holism not complementary?
- 12 August 1993
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Mark Allen Group in British Journal of Nursing
- Vol. 2 (15) , 744-745
- https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.1993.2.15.744
Abstract
There is a great danger, in the struggle to emancipate nurses and educate them in holism, with the suggestion that the paradigm shift in nursing needs to be from a Newtonian-Cartusian model to a complementary-alternative one. Mistakenly, the term holism is rapidly becoming a pseudonym, in all senses of the word, for complementary. Just as complementary is not the same as alternative, so holism is not necessarily complementary. It may embrace some complementary, but does it have to?Keywords
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