Editor's note: This article was first published in the book Ecovillage Living Restoring the Earth and Her People, published in 2002 by Green Books in association with Gaia Trust and edited by Hildur Jackson and
Responding to a call to action for the Earth, this issue of One Earth Magazine (Volume 6, Issue 1, November/December 1985) explores amongst many things Becoming Part of Gaia, Permaculture as a Way of Life,
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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
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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
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