The future of social medicine

the evaluation and comparison of two esp textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...

the future of ethics in medicine

Depiction of the Future: Intervention Strategy in Social Systems

Regarding the complexity of social systems and the presence of autonomousintervenes, designing and making the future requires a special strategy, which can harmonize these elements with itself. This can be possible by future depicting, which makes an insight into the desired fUture, and presents a real perspective of it; and/or it promotes a planned perception of the desired status to impose a...

Integrative Medicine, the Medicine of the Future

Integrative medicine got a boost of greater public awareness and funding after a landmark 1993 study. That study showed that one in three Americans had used an alternative therapy, often under the medical radar. Proponents prefer the term Integrative Medicine or complementary to emphasize that such treatments are used with mainstream medicine, not as replacements or alternatives. Integrative me...

The future of medicine

When people in ancient Greece needed advice on their future, they usually turned to local forecasting institutions, a popular and respected service at that time. The most famous amongst these was the Oracle of Delphi, where gods, demigods and celebrities listened to a priestess describing their future in twisted words. The only problem with the oracle’s predictions was that they were often not ...