Søren Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick Quality of Life Research Center, Classensgade 11C, 1 sal, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark; Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine and Nordic School of Holistic Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark; Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine, Sandvika, Norway; Interuniversity College, Graz, Austria; 6 Faculty of Social Sciences, Depart...

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The paper aims to contribute to integrated discussion of ethics in holistic healthcare. Methods: Noting key aspects of the literature on ethics in holistic healthcare, the authors then focus on describing the working ethical statement for holistic healthcare practitioners produced for the International Society of Holistic Health (ISHH). Ethical principles, aims of holistic practice, and ethical...

In this abstract, we try to build a bridge between Guarino’s notion of quality fields/patterns and the Theory of Conceptual Spaces (CS). For that, we employ an extension of CS called Holistic-Structure Spaces.

A patient-oriented workflow methodology is proposed to study anticoagulation management, which takes place both in clinical and non-clinical settings. The methodology provides an integrated perspective that can be used to uncover quality, efficiency and safety problems in diverse healthcare settings and inform systematic interventions to overcome these problems. However, practical, methodologic...

Our approach towards teaching visual design is based on our viewpoint of visualization as a way to elicit understanding and experience. Our teaching practice shows a permanent stress on an analytic attitude and an explicit application of design space to fit the design to the users’ culture and context and still stimulate creative solutions.