Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Integrative Medicine

Gendered Drugs and Medicine. Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives.

Wisconsin medicine. Historical perspectives

RONALD L. NUMBERS and JUDITH WALZER LEAVITT (editors), Wisconsin medicine. Historical perspectives, Madison and London, University of Wisconsin Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. xi, 212, illus., $18.50. This is a collection of eleven papers delivered at a bicentennial symposium in 1976. Wisconsin, a State only since 1848, deserved such a study because it was not only typical for the Mid-west, but a medical...

Systems Approaches: A Global and Historical Perspective on Integrative Medicine

The globalization of healing systems is a dance of cultural awareness and cultural dominance that has arisen throughout history. With the development of greater communication and interest in whole-systems approaches to healing, the opportunity for the development of a global perspective on healing has emerged with new life force. The birth of integrative holistic healing systems in the West, su...

A Review of a Historical Summit on Integrative Medicine

The US Institute of Medical sponsors a "Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public" on February 25-27, 2009. A prestigious body of speakers and attendees created a dynamic conference in which the content and discussions provided vital information for transforming the US health care system. Topics included: patient-centered care, the scientific basis of integrative medicine, hea...

Historical perspectives on person-centered medicine and psychiatry

The diagnostic process in psychiatry has always been a controversial issue. This has to do with particular features of this field: from all medical specialties, psychiatry and psychotherapy are most intensively connected with political, historical and social developments. Psychiatry, as we know and recognize it today, i.e. as a medical discipline closely linked with neurobiological, psychologic...