Intellectual Movements and Holistic Perspectives

The concept of globalism acknowledges the fact that the world is no longer constrained by national borders. A number of respected observers of world affairs have been arguing for more than a decade that our world has become a global village: "A popular belief since the end of World War II has been that the future world will see the development of a single homogeneous world culture" (Haviland 453). Transportation and communication capabilities--for example, supersonic jets, international telephone and computer networks, etc.--make it easier to talk with or visit people on other continents than it was for our ancestors to interact with people from neighboring villages.

The reality of the global village can be demonsrated by looking at the growing impact of multinational corporations and the rise of regional cooperative arrangements between countries. While international businesses have been around for centuries, multinationals are a relatively recent phenomenon. Multinationals use their worldwide operations to develop glo

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red therapy views the client as intrinsically good and trustworthy, healing implies that the client is freed to pursue social responsibility and mutually beneficial relationships with others: "Rogers [was] fundamentally an optimist about human potential" (Nye 110). Holistic healthcare is a philosophy that embodies a variety of different approaches to clinical practice. The term "holism" refers to a concept that describes subject matter in terms of its entirety as opposed to its component parts. Holistic healthcare differs from traditional Western medical models that regard disease primarily as a disturbance of biological or psychological functions. The holistic approach involves more than just an emphasis on spirituality in healing. Holistic healthcare acknowledges the patient's role, the role of healthcare providers, and the role of society in the prevention and treatment of disease. Although the Hippocratic tradition, the foundation of Western medicine, emphasized the relationship among body, mind, and environment, modern medical science has since adopted a reductionist viewpoint. The dominant medical theory in the twentieth century is the biomedical model, which minimizes the importance of psychological factors in det
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