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Unconventional Western Medicine
2003A number of forms of complementary or alternative medicine currently practised have their origins in the western intellectual tradition: Western Europe and North America. This chapter aims to outline some of the more common forms of CAM of western origin, particularly those supported by evidence of clinical effectiveness.
R. McCarney, P. Fisher
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The model of western integrative medicine: The role of Chinese medicine
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2011The basic concept of integrative medicine (IM) is that by combining mainstream (biomedicine) with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), synergistic therapeutic effects can be attained. When the methods of mind/body medicine (MBM) are added to this combination, as in Western countries, a new concept emerges that drastically changes the approach ...
Dobos, Gustav, Tao, Iven
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2012
This article encourages discussion of the multiplicity of sometimes rapidly changing practices that have always surrounded the maintenance of health and the treatment of illness. It points to one of the ways in which some medical activities in Western Europe were channelled in ways unlike most other regions of the world: the legal form of a ...
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This article encourages discussion of the multiplicity of sometimes rapidly changing practices that have always surrounded the maintenance of health and the treatment of illness. It points to one of the ways in which some medical activities in Western Europe were channelled in ways unlike most other regions of the world: the legal form of a ...
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The cradle of Western medicine
Nowa Medycyna, 2018The origins of Western Medicine can be found through the Greeks and the Romans, originally with Mythological figures represented by the god Asclepius, and later by Greek doctors such as Hippocrates and Galen. Roman medicine was highly influenced by the Greek medical tradition, relying more on naturalistic observations rather than on spiritual rituals ...
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The integration of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine
European Review, 2003Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is one of the world's oldest medical systems, having a history of several thousands of years. It is a system of healing based upon the Chinese philosophy of the correspondence between nature and human beings. Its theories refer to yin and yang, the Five Elements, zang-fu, channels-collaterals, qi, blood, body fluid ...
Xu Hao, Chen Keji
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BIOHEOLOGY, WESTERN MEDICINE AND ACUPUNCTURE
Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, 1985An attempt is made by the author to show that biorheology and certain of its branches are expected to contribute towards a better understanding of mechanisms concerning beneficial effects known in the practice of acupuncture. Rheology, a branch of physics, founded as an organized science in 1929, is defined as the science of deformation and flow of ...
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The Spread of Western Medicine
1997Abstract A world survey of medical ideas and practices in AD 1000 would have found three ‘great systems’-the Chinese, Indian, and Western, though the latter would have been more appropriately termed ‘Mediterranean’, as it was based largely on Greek, Roman, and Islamic ideas.
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Western Medicine in Tropical Lands
New England Journal of Medicine, 1971Tropical Doctor is about to celebrate its first anniversary. It is a journal conceived — and so hailed by Lancet, British Medical Journal and other publications — as an information service oriented...
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2022
This chapter describes the six aspects of health care that the Meiji government took control of: medical education, medical licensing, hospitals and clinics, health care administration, medical associations, and the relationship with doctors and pharmacists.
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This chapter describes the six aspects of health care that the Meiji government took control of: medical education, medical licensing, hospitals and clinics, health care administration, medical associations, and the relationship with doctors and pharmacists.
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Medicine in Future and Advantages of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine
Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2019The history of medical development shows that oriental medicine, or traditional medicine, was born through medical practice during the times when science and technology were immature and underdeveloped, whereas with the development of science and technology, Western medicine, or modern medicine, was born through experimental analysis and research. With
Yue-Fen Wang +4 more
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