Wholeness in Healers AND Patients demands Curative AND Healing Capacities

     "In the classical sense, medicine can be considered the science and art of treating persons suffering from injury, disease and illness. The history of medicine reveals that almost universally such treatment can be discriminated into two primary approaches: curative and healing capacities.

     The Asclepian approach, is more focused upon causes of disease as targets for intervention. 

     The Hygieian approach is more cross culturally engrained and broadly salutogenic, embracing attempts to promote wellness and/or evoke healing mechanisms within the individual, so as to maintain health or reduce illness.
     ... we posit that modern medicine, in its Asclepian focus, has subordinated the need and importance of Hygieian healing and caring, and in so doing has lost a radical quality that is both essential to medicine, and fundamental to its perdurability. Therefore, we argue that an integrative medicine must be based upon a core philosophical foundation that rejoins Asclepian and Hygieian approaches, not singularly or co-optationally, but in true conceptual and practical dialectic, such that integration represents a synthesis of these orientations in epistemic, humanitarian and ethical domains."

       Giordano J, Jonas W. Asclepius and Hygieia in dialectic: Philosophical, ethical and educational foundations of an integrative medicine. Integrative Medicine Insights 2007; 2: 53–60.

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