
Title: | The Nature of Integrative Study | |
Author: | Joseph Engelberg | |
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NOTE: This title is currently out of print. This dynamic book encourages holistic vision, and is directed to individuals who wish to pursue integration themselves rather than merely read about it -- by Joseph Engelberg. This work is presented as an aid to those who wish to move beyond the criticism of specialization and fragmentation to the undertaking of actual integrative approaches. It can help you initiate a process of integrative study which can involve participants of varied ages, backgrounds, and levels of educational attainment. The methods and texts described in this work evolved over a twenty-year period and have been the basis for many medical center, university campus, and community college study sessions and courses.
This work is an aid for groups as well as individual study. In various drafts it has been in use for over thirty years. The groups numbered from two to 100 individuals ranging in ages 14 to 80 years. Among them were high school, college, medical, and graduate students, as well as faculty and staff, and high school students. To read a sample chapter of The Nature of Integrative Study, Click here
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The Nature of Integrative Study
Book Review by: Kenneth Davis
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About the Author: | Joseph Engelberg was born in Vienna. Following the Nazi takeover he fled, first to England, then to the United States where he has resided ever since. In his senior year at the Cooper Union School of Engineering, he developed an interest in the application of engineering methods to the solution of medical problems. Following his graduation, he pursued these interests in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. While there he obtained a Ph.D. in physics. Following his post-doctoral studies at the University of Colorado Medical Center and the University of California at Berkeley, he joined the faculty of the newly-established University of Kentucky College of Medicine where he is presently a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physiology. Apart from his scientific interests, he has wrestled from early times with the question: Can the universe be approached without adopting the viewpoint of one or another area of specialization? Is the oxygen molecule, for example, a citizen of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, or the humanities? What seemed to be lacking was not another area of specialization but an approach that was above and beyond these areas of specialization. Further, this approach should not talk about integration but help individuals bring this about. From this premise a plethora of activities ensued. They included the establishment of an Office of Integrative Studies. The Office made use of the vast resources available in any major university. It developed dozens of college, university-wide, and community-wide programs ranging from graduate and medical education, to hospital care, religion, and humanistic studies. |
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Details: | 1993 [ISBN: 0-913507-51-2; 336 pages soft cover; 8.5-by-11-inch] |