John Travis (physician)

Dr. John Travis
BornJohn Walton Travis
OccupationAuthor and physician
EducationBA, The College of Wooster; MD, Tufts University School of Medicine; MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health;
SubjectWellness, Genital integrity, Attachment parenting
Notable worksWellness Inventory (1975, 1981, 1988, 2003)
Wellness Workbook (1981, 1988, 2004)

John W. Travis is an American author and medical practitioner. He is a proponent of the alternative medicine concept of "wellness", originally proposed in 1961 by Halbert L. Dunn, and has written books on the subject. In the 1970s, Travis founded the first "wellness center" in California.[1] He originated the Illness–Wellness Continuum.[2]

  1. ^ Hans A. Baer (1 January 2004). Toward an Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine. Rowman Altamira. pp. 5–. ISBN 978-0-7591-0302-3.
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