Daniel J. Benor MDCaregivers and careseekers We have many terms for those who offer treatments and those who seek them. Each has its own tradition and shapes the relationships of the caregivers and careseekers in subtle but pervasive ways. The first term I suggest...
Words play an important part in the realms of healing. Conventional medicine focuses on physical problems. It offers medicines and other physical manipulations (hormones, surgery, and genetic alterations) as ways of dealing with problems.
Wholistic medicine tends more towards relational understandings of illnesses and approaches for dealing with problems on all levels.
The words we use shape our perceptions and our interactions with the world. Through words we are taught to label the myriads of stimuli that enter our sensory portals.
