Exploration of Spiritual Elements in Holistic-Entrepreneur (Holistic-E): Student Development Perspectives

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Holistic View in Medicine

Modern medicine was born in modernism period around two centuries ago with materialistic view in general and pure biologic approach to health and disease. This new kind of approach was based on the wide spread philosophic view of that era especially the hypotheses of Claude Bernard. As our understanding of human biology has tremendously progressed, and the emergence of postmodernism era has o...

Holistic Nursing of Forensic Patients: A Focus on Spiritual Care

Prisons are a unique context where nurses are required to have specific skills to ensure that prisoners receive the same type of holistic care as anyone else out of prison, including spiritual care. This discussion paper focuses on understanding how nurses deliver spiritual care in Italian prisons where there are often limited resources and where organizational priorities hinder the provision o...

Holistic General Practice: A Student`s Perspective

This patient was a lady in her 50s who had previously been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and rectal cancer. She had undergone neo-adjuvant chemotherapy designed to shrink the tumour before it was removed surgically. However, the cancer responded better than expected to the chemotherapy, and the oncologists could no longer find evidence of active cancer within the patient. The oncologist ha...

Spiritual Wellness, Holistic Health, and the Practice of Health Education

The current practice of health education often fails to harmonize with the multidimensional, dynamic, and functional nature of health as generally defined within our profession. As a stepchild of the medical and public health professions, we have inherited a preoccupation with physical health as the most worthy outcome measure for most of our programs. Yet other dimensions of health seem equall...