Can anyone please give me an example of atomistic and one example of holistic ap!
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Can anyone please give me an example of atomistic and one example of holistic approach.. thanks a lot?
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*****Holistic health is a term used by alternative medicine advocates to describe medical care that views physical, mental, and spiritual aspects of life as closely interconnected and balanced. Advocates of the holistic health philosophy typically seek or use a wide variety of alternative medicine practices, the most common of which include acupuncture, ayurveda, Siddha, chiropractic, naturopathy, yoga, aromatherapy, homeopathy, massage, Tai Chi, Chinese herbology, Medical cannabis, medicinal herbs. Etc...( see the first link) also (see the second link for more info for examples)
****It seems to me that over time, the approach to public health has become dangerously atomistic. Seldom do we look at the complete individual and ask the question, "What are this person's needs to achieve his/her health potential?" Rather, our interventions tend to focus on the most pressing health concerns, then deal separately with related factors such as housing, medical care, nutrition, substance abuse, education, and poverty, as if these were all independent from one another. Individual concerns are often identified by persons with specific, even disparate, job duties. Etc.. (see third link)
With the advent of the atomistic revolution that hypothesizes the origins of the biological world in a casual manner, without the presence of self-organizational methods, man's aspiration to live a healthy life and to die peacefully with the aid of experts in Aesculapius' art, once satisfied, would be replaced in diagnosis and theory by a kind of robot lacking in any kind of humanity. Extraneous to the desperate plea of his patient, not only for a cure but also for a spiritual hand to rise up out of an emotional situation that could probably dissolve, or at least relieve the chains of his illness, the doctor would only be an executor of protocols and guidelines, and increasingly more frequently, following the mechanization of medicine, he would be replaced by more or less intelligent machines. Etc.. (see the fourth link for more info and examples)
(I hope this helps. :) )