To me, enchantment means obsession.

It means being so enthralled with something that you

devote as much of your waking time to it as you possibly can. It means thinking about something to the
exclusion of most other things. Such enchantment often has an impetus; an inspiration that inspires the
pursuit of whatever obsession one has. For Edward Wilson, the impetus was the study of biological
classification and the environment, and this led him to be enchanted by the idea of consilience; a set of
unifying principles connecting the humanities and the sciences. It can be demonstrated that this sort of
unity is vital to human welfare in multiple ways. For instance, healthcare workers in recent years have
begun practicing a more holistic approach to patient care. Instead of basing their diagnoses and
treatments solely on scientific data, they take into account things like the patients living environment
and persistent habits in order to better treat them. This shows that threads uniting various disciplines do
indeed exist, and can have vast positive implications for those willing to find them.
The notion of consilience can also be applied to various forms of environmental discourse. For
issues of global importance like the over prescription of antibiotics, consilience can be used to bring
together all of the relevant disciplines concerning this topic and find out what they all have in common,
thus hopefully leading to a more productive discourse.

Biology

Rhetoric

Education

Psychology

In order to understand why it is that no action has been taken concerning the over prescription
of antibiotics even though the negative effects have been known for a while, it will be important to
thoroughly understand the biological reasons that such over prescription has led to life-threatening
superbugs. Once the biological factors have been ascertained, they can be analyzed in terms of what
rhetorical style would best suite their description to the general public, which will largely be determined
by human psychology and how the mind processes information. All of these things taken as a whole will
feed into how to best use this information in order to educate people about the importance of
decreasing our use of antibiotics.