Not too long ago what the world now knows as Western conventional medicine didn't exist. While conventional medicine is a newborn compared to the Eastern systems of medicine, several of which have been in use for many thousands of years, its rapid ascension to becoming an internationally recognized standard is worthy of note. Three advances …
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Various systems of medicine have developed around the world and each possesses its own unique character, emphasis and approach. The overall "shape" of each system reflects in many ways the dominant cultural, political, economic and philosophical forces at work in its country of birth, and it is thus that we have the so-called "Eastern" and …
Gregory Hake 