"Growth of science should increase our understanding; indeed it already has. Yet growth of the sciences has also increased our misunderstandings in many ways. The sciences are by their very nature specialized, and advancement in each tends to require further specialization. The more specialized a scientist becomes, the narrower his interests, the focus of his efforts, and the center of his perspective tend to become. Despite the omnipresence of whole-part relationships, the more devoted a specialist is to the parts, the more larger wholes will fade from his vision. In this way, scientist tends to be disintegrative, and our understanding, even when scientific, tends to be reductionistic.

Such reductionism can be experienced by almost any person consulting his physician. Where can one find a physician willing to examine him as a whole person? My physician is a cardiologist. When he has checked my electrocardiogram and test regarding glandular problems brought from my previous physician, he feels satisfactorily finished with me. Although my digestive, nervous, muscular, respiratory, skeletal, cutaneous, and glandular systems all interdepend with my circulatory system, they receive no significant consideration. Wholeness and wholesomeness, something we need as an inspiring and guiding ideal, is missing from science."

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