Holistic Medicine and Spirituality

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Health and well being, since time immemorial, has been the function of apothecaries and faith healers; people who looked at the entire body. Science has become the forefather of medicine. "It is easy to forget that, by its nature, science is reductionist and Aristotelian, exploring reality by slicing it in to understandable pieces." (Fulder 775) There are literally hundreds of different doctors and thousands of different medications on the market and our knowledge is almost endless, …

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