When did term, ‘integrative medicine,’ enter the lexicon?
Who coined the phrase, integrative medicine?
Andrew Weil has popularized the term. Has been integrative medicine’s greatest ambassador. Created incredible demand for it.
Pretigious medical schools across the country have developed departments of integrative medicine in the last decade. (Including Duke University, Harvard University, Stanford University, University of California, San Francisco, University of Arizona, Columbia University, University of Maryland, University of New Mexico, Thomas Jefferson University, University of Massachusetts, Albert Einstein/Yeshiva University, Georgetown University, and the University of Minnesota, among others.)
I don’t recall being aware of the terms, integrative health, integrative medicine, integrative healing, before about 1988 or 1989.
Earliest reference I can find to “integrative health” is this citation about the 1976 founding of the Integrative Health Center in New York which, in 1981 became the New Center for Wholistic Health Education and Research.
Earliest use of the term, “integrative medicine” that I’ve come up with so far is in this citation about the 1983 founding of the professional assocation, the International College of Integrative Medicine, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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