Editor’s note: The following article was previously published in One Earth Magazine Issue No. 16, Winter 1994/95. In collaboration with the Findhorn Foundation, our May 1994 conference, 'Medical Marriage: the New Partnership between Orthodox and
Over 100 people attended this international conference which was dedicated to exploring the possibilities of cooperation between orthodox and non-orthodox practitioners of medicine and to heighten the awareness of human spirit in matters of health
The intention of this report is to capture the atmosphere as well as the content of the weekend. It gives summaries of the plenary lectures and the resolutions of the themegroups which met three times
The way a health care system integrates death is indicative of the degree of holism implemented in its principles. In the reductionist world view, death is the ultimate enemy, the annihilation of all that is
Multidisciplinary co-operation is the ideal expression of Medical Marriage, where doctors and complementary practitioners work together as a team, providing care, support, health and welfare for patients, practitioners and doctors alike. It is the best
First Do No Harm In disease care the least harmful intervention has to be provided first. Only if that fails to solve the problem are more invasive treatments justified. This means, in many cases, that
People have the right to take responsibility for their lives as much as they want to and they have the right to receive all the information they need in order to do that. They are
It would seem obvious, when looking at a model for a health care system, to consider health. However, medical training until now has tended to focus on pathologies and its treatments rather than on health.
Medical Marriage is the concept of an integrated health care system where doctors work hand in hand with practitioners of complementary therapies. Through the meeting of two very different paradigms - the so-called reductionist and
The Two Paradigms The reductionist paradigm, on which contemporary medical thinking has been based, is attributed to Newton and Descartes. Their contribution to civilisation has influenced the philosophy and science of the last three centuries
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