About the Author Keith Scott-Mumby is a qualified medical doctor who has been on the front line of alternative health controversy for nearly three decades. He has written and broadcast frequently and is particularly known for his pioneer work in clinical ecology. In 1986 he made medico-legal history when a UK court accepted his evidence that food allergies could make a man murderously violent. My quest for some years has been for a model which will bind us all together in a friendly, cohesive schema. Many disciplines and models have entered the healing arena in the decades since I graduated from medical school.
Most alternatives claim the banner of holism , yet none in themselves is the complete answer.
Some practitioners see differing domains as somehow mutually exclusive. There is a clear tendency to rivalry, perhaps based on the fact that most alternative practitioners work privately and feel they are competing for potential clients. My quest for some years has been for a model which will bind us all together in a friendly, cohesive schema. This is the body physical and its material surroundings. The vast majority of modern medicine works only at this level.