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HOLISM [5 records]

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Record 1 2012-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
DEF

The principle that an organism is not equal to the sum of its parts and must be studied as a whole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
DEF

Théorie selon laquelle l'organisme est un tout indivisible différent de la somme de ses composantes (physique, physiologique, psychique).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento sin cirugía
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Record 2 2004-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

The view that the whole of a complex system such as a cell or organism, is functionally greater than the sum of its parts.

OBS

Also a view of organizations in which the organization is viewed as a functioning whole; a change in any element of the system will thus change the entire system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences biologiques
DEF

[...] tendance de l'univers à construire des unités de complication croissante : matière inerte, matière vivante, matière vivante et pensante.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias biológicas
DEF

Teoría según la cual todos los entes físicos y biológicos forman parte de un sistema, cuya totalidad es mayor que la suma de las partes que lo componen.

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Record 3 2001-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Biological Sciences
DEF

Of, relating to, or based on holism.

OBS

holism : A theory or doctrine according to which a whole cannot be analyzed without residue into the sum of its parts or reduced to discrete elements.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Sciences biologiques
CONT

Dans la perspective holistique et gestaltiste de la biopsychologie contemporaine, on ne saurait concevoir deux séries juxtaposées de symptômes positifs et de symptômes négatifs [...]. C'est une véritable structure globale [...]

OBS

Dérivé de «holisme».

OBS

holisme: Se dit de toute conception d'après laquelle le tout (organisme, société, etc.) a des propriétés distinctes de celles de ses éléments constitutifs ce qui requiert, en conséquence, une étude globale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sociología (Generalidades)
  • Psicología (Generalidades)
  • Ciencias biológicas
DEF

Naturaleza de ciertos hechos y fenómenos, que implica su apreciación relacionándolos con el todo en el que están inmersos.

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Record 4 1990-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Medicine
  • Non-Surgical Treatment
OBS

holism :"The view that an organic or integrated whole has a reality independent of and greater than the sum of its parts".(New World Dictionary)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la médecine
  • Traitements non chirurgicaux
OBS

holisme : "Concept psychologique selon lequel l'organisme est un tout différent de la somme des parties qui le composent". (Manuila)

Spanish

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Record 5 1977-08-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biogeography
DEF

an advocate of holism or holistic principles.

OBS

holism :[...] philosophic theory first formulated by Jan C. Snuets that the determining factors in nature are wholes(as organisms) which are irreductible to the seem of the parts and that the evolution of the universe is the record of the activity and making of these wholes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biogéographie
DEF

[...] partisan de l'étude des touts pour eux-mêmes et pas seulement de la série de ses constituants. Tout fait humain (une habitation, un bocage) sont à la fois «effets» et «causes» par rapport aux autres. Un village n'est pas seulement la somme des maisons qui le composent, une forêt pas seulement le total des arbres, mais ils doivent être étudiés en tant que village et en tant que forêt.

Spanish

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