06-26-2008, 05:24 PM
Ivar T. That shows your broadmindedness. That is important.
Definitions change, and groups of people are thrown in with other groups that don't really have the same mission, beliefs, attitude or tactics. Terminology is rarely clarified in forum situations and (certainly can vary from forum to forum). This can bring emotional responses, based on a misinterpretation of where one is coming from. (dare I say, a curebie, may not hav ever heard of the word curebie, for example and may not agree with curing with bio-med reseacrh but thinks curing means soemthing else alltogether - like curing ignorance)
Alternative medicine was once synonomous with ancient medicine (chinese). Alternative medicine has been called, evrything from allopathic, to holistic - you get the point. Here is an excerpt of an article on frontline and a link if you are interested in the whole of it.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...sophy.html - 33k -
Another element of the alternative medical worldview has been to maintain a holistic orientation toward treating patients. "Holistic" is a term that came in in the 1970s and it became a big buzz word, but all of the alternative systems have been holistic from the very beginning. They didn't know it because they didn't have the term, but they all, as early as the 1830s and 40s, are emphasizing that every patient has to be treated as an individual. His or her emotional and spiritual and other psychic factors have to be taken into account, and they have to be treated humanely. Whereas allopathic medicine, it was being charged from the beginning, treats people as containers of organs that have to have the disease beaten out of them, but don't deal with them as whole people. That's been there from the beginning.
It's part of what I call the "Hippocratic heresy" which is a term I've suggested for the philosophy of alternative medicine because they have been treated as heretics,....
Definitions change, and groups of people are thrown in with other groups that don't really have the same mission, beliefs, attitude or tactics. Terminology is rarely clarified in forum situations and (certainly can vary from forum to forum). This can bring emotional responses, based on a misinterpretation of where one is coming from. (dare I say, a curebie, may not hav ever heard of the word curebie, for example and may not agree with curing with bio-med reseacrh but thinks curing means soemthing else alltogether - like curing ignorance)
Alternative medicine was once synonomous with ancient medicine (chinese). Alternative medicine has been called, evrything from allopathic, to holistic - you get the point. Here is an excerpt of an article on frontline and a link if you are interested in the whole of it.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...sophy.html - 33k -
Another element of the alternative medical worldview has been to maintain a holistic orientation toward treating patients. "Holistic" is a term that came in in the 1970s and it became a big buzz word, but all of the alternative systems have been holistic from the very beginning. They didn't know it because they didn't have the term, but they all, as early as the 1830s and 40s, are emphasizing that every patient has to be treated as an individual. His or her emotional and spiritual and other psychic factors have to be taken into account, and they have to be treated humanely. Whereas allopathic medicine, it was being charged from the beginning, treats people as containers of organs that have to have the disease beaten out of them, but don't deal with them as whole people. That's been there from the beginning.
It's part of what I call the "Hippocratic heresy" which is a term I've suggested for the philosophy of alternative medicine because they have been treated as heretics,....