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Previous Volume 346:70-71 January 3, 2002 Number 1

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By Raphael N. Melmed. 424 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. $49.95. ISBN 0-19-513164-9.

The belief of the Greek philosophers in the separateness of mind and body, although challenged from the beginning, has its counterpart in medicine. The importance of a holistic approach to a patient would seem to be self-evident, but the separation of psychiatric and somatic medicine occurred during the early 20th century and has been reinforced by the rapid development of biologic knowledge and ever-increasing specialization. The generalist movement, sustained by economic pressures, may be seen as medicine's challenge to the belief in the separateness of mind and body.

Mind, Body, and Medicine: An Integrative Text is a timely contribution to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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