Abstract: While integrative practices in health care have grown over the past half-century, life sciences still view nature almost entirely through a reductionist lens. Contemporary research is described that complements this reductionist, non-holistic perspective with the methods of Goethean science. A rigorous approach to qualitative science and to wholeness in nature is outlined.

Citation: Landman-Reiner, A. (2021). Complementing reductionism: Goethean science part 1: Qualities and wholeness. EXPLORE, 17(4), 360–365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2020.02.015