The Healing Circle: An Ethnographic Research Study of Human Interaction Within a New Model of Integrative Medicine-Crimson Publishers
The Healing Circle: An Ethnographic Research Study of Human Interaction Within a New Model of Integrative Medicine by Meg Jordan in Advances in Complementary & Alternative Medicine Journal
This ethnographic study explores an innovative experiment in integrative medicine known as the healing circle, as developed by a collaborative group of biomedical and alternative health practitioners in northern California. The original intent of the circle was to surmount the perceived shortcoming in many integrative clinics of subordinating and trivializing alternative healing practices as mere treatment options, under the auspices of biomedicine. The practitioners sought to create a more level playing field, in which an actual blending or harmonizing of disparate medical world views could be accomplished.
