Nature of Healing: The Modern Practice of MedicineCurrently and for centuries past, sickness has been understood to be primarily the physical result of bodily disease. Yet this definition of illness is out of date and untrue to life at a time when chronic illness and the problems of disability and aging are increasingly common. When persons are sick, it pervades their whole being. The Nature of Healing is based on a different definition of sickness, one that recognizes persons as sick when they