Blending East and West for holistic education

East is East and west is west.

This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

Heredity, East and West

Hypertension; East and West

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular diseases consistently contribute to most morbid and mortal events in most parts of the world. Many of these cardiovascular events are premature in nature, especially in the developing world [2]. These premature deaths of individuals who should be productive to society will in turn confer additional burden to...

10th Anniversary Celebration UCLA Center for East–West Medicine East Meets West for Comprehensive Pain Management

There is a new journal! For this first issue of Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM), it is especially appropriate to focus on an event at UCLA because of its significant association to Dr Ka-Kit Hui and others are members of our Editorial Board. Patient care, and perhaps any spill over into basic research, is of great interest. We are pleased to celebrate the tenth anni...

Values in Holistic Education

The holistic education movement does not have a single source, a predominant proponent, or a major form of expression. Consequently, it is difficult to define holistic education. However, there are a number of values and perceptions that most schools claiming to be holistic would embrace, and today I would like to mention some of these values and look especially at what gave rise to their popul...