From Gorgons to Goop: Scent Therapy and the Smell of Transformation in Antiquity and the Holistic Health Movement

The resurgence of the holistic health movement in the 1970s can be in part attributed to increasing consumer dissatisfaction with the present system of medical care delivery. This article traces the rise and decline of modern medicine by analyzing the assumption of hegemony by scientific medicine and its practitioners. Then it describes the challenges that holistic medicine's theories and therapies currently pose to scientific medicine's organizational form and practical content. Holistic medicine is assessed in terms of its organizational and conceptual basis, and the relationship between holistic medicine and the needs of advanced capitalist society is discussed.

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Vital Energy the Antebellum Health Movement

Journal of Holistic Nursing ◽

10.1177/089801019100900305 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 10-18

Author(s):

Hamilton Diane

Keyword(s):

Social Economic ◽

Well Being ◽

Holistic Health ◽

Orthodox Medicine ◽

Antebellum America ◽

Historical Essay ◽

The Past ◽

Health Movement ◽

Intellectual Context ◽

The Relationship

Abstract: While the notion of the relationship between well-being and energy attracts nurses, the idea is not new to health care. During antebellum America a “medical counterculture” embraced an assortment of holistic beliefs which challenged orthodox medicine. This historical essay describes the holistic health movement of the 1800's and emphasizes the notion that health is both a product and a prisoner of any epoch's social, economic, and intellectual context. Although the past is not prologue, the essay suggests patterns and reactions of the health movement which will seem familiar to holisic health nurse practioners. The conceptual struggle of mind/body interaction and the questions regarding which entity has priority or supremacy have puzzled health practioners for centuries.

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The potential rejuvenation of American naturopathy as a consequence of the holistic health movement

Medical Anthropology ◽

10.1080/01459740.1992.9966058 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 369-383 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Hans A. Baer

Keyword(s):

Holistic Health ◽

Health Movement

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The Role of Drug Therapy in Alternative Healing Systems

Journal of Drug Issues ◽

10.1177/002204268801800205 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 185-194

Author(s):

Edward H. Clouse

Keyword(s):

Drug Therapy ◽

Folk Medicine ◽

Holistic Health ◽

Faith Healing ◽

Current Status ◽

Coherent Systems ◽

Alternative Healing ◽

Health Movement ◽

Naturopathic Medicine

In the course of American history there have been many varieties of “alternative” medical practice. They include folk medicine, domestic medicine, drugstore medicine, faith healing, mesmerism, and quackery, as well as more coherent systems such as physicomedical, herbal, botanic, reformed, eclectic, hydropathic, chronothermal, chiropractic, osteopathic, homeopathic, and naturopathic medicine. This paper discusses the development and current status of the art of chiropractic, as well as the medical philosophies of osteopathy, homeopathy, and naturopathy. Particular attention is focused on how the use of drugs and drug therapy is viewed by advocates of these alternative medical practices. Their demonstrated concern for the patient as a whole and their relationship to the holistic health movement is also considered.

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Argumentation by Self-Model: Missing Methods and Opportunities in the Personal Narratives of Popular Health Coaches

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication ◽

10.1177/0047281617696984 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 259-280 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maria E Gigante

Keyword(s):

Traditional Medicine ◽

Evidence Based Medicine ◽

Personal Narratives ◽

Holistic Health ◽

The Self ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Health Movement ◽

Health Coaches ◽

Do It Yourself ◽

Based Medicine

This essay expands Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s concept of argumentation by model to bring more attention to the persuasive effects of using the self as a model. To illuminate this technique, I analyze the personal narratives of popular health coaches, who are championing a holistic health movement toward what I refer to as “do-it-yourself healthcare.” This case involves arguments regarding the efficacy of methods in evidence-based medicine and “alternative” or holistic health, as popular health coaches predicate their ability to heal themselves and others on abandoning traditional medicine. In brief, the purpose of this article is twofold: first, to characterize the rhetoric of the movement toward alternative or holistic health, and, second, to extend Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca’s concept of argumentation by model and address the implications of this expansion.

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