The recurring popularity of alternative medicine
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Alternative medicine is at a popularity peak in the late 1990s, apparently filling a perceived need. Those who cannot be cured by orthodox medicine, which cannot cure everything, naturally seek other remedies. In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, orthodox medicine gained prestige and the attraction of alternative practitioners declined. Now rising costs, lack of access, deterioration in quality and rapid disorganized changes are hurting the established healthcare system. There is a unfulfilled need for a new medical model and a concomitant flight from science and reason.
Publication Name: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0031-5982
Year: 1997
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Rituals and roles in medical practice
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The medical practice involve many rituals and traditional roles which the medical students learn through their studies and culture. The usual diagnostic process is characteristically similar to healing and initiation rituals. The rituals and roles bear psychological significance for the patient and his recovery. Patients experience healing in body and soul and at the rational pre-rational levels. The medical practice should acknowledge and integrate the rituals into their actions.
Publication Name: Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0031-5982
Year: 1996
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