ABSTRACT
The emerging wellness clinics and holistic approaches to health, which among other things emphasized prevention as a meaningful concept, were regarded as newfangled and not in the mainstream of health care. The nonholistic understanding of health is certainly not rooted in antiquity. The general practitioner progressively yielded to the medical specialties that emerged in the twentieth century, the discipline of health care seemed sufficiently dissected. Relevant to unhealthy attitudes and expressions are the unfortunate choice of words that are common in the philosophy and practice of the medical profession itself. Characteristically the alternative forms of care and treatment have in common the belief that health is a natural state and that this is acquired by being in harmony with all aspects of the self. The chapter argues that many people in the medical profession are frustrated with the focus of wellness as well as the crisis in the health industry.
