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A Concept of Holistic Ethics for the Health Professional

Bodymind Systems, McLennan Community College

Gerald T. Keegan, M.D.

Scott and White Clinic and Hospital

Holistic ethics involves a basic underlying concept of the unity and integral wholeness of all people and of all nature that is identified and pursued by finding unity and wholeness within the self Within this framework, acts are not performed for the sake of law, precedent, or social norms, but rather out of a sense of doing good freely in order to witness, identify, and contribute to unity. The development of holistic ethics involves elements of both the masculine and feminine concepts interacting and relating to one another and encompassing traditional ethical views. It is characterized in the yin-yang mode of the monad of the East and the Western concept of masculine and feminine. Holistic ethics is not an ethics that is grounded or judged either in the act performed or in the distant consequences of the act, but rather in the conscious evolution of an enlightened individual of raised consciousness who performs the act. The concern is the effect of the act primarily on the individual and his or her larger Self (that unity of which he or she is a part).

Journal of Holistic Nursing, Vol. 10, No. 3, 205-217 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/089801019201000303


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