The evolutionary journey of medical science
By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2010
Medicine, like everything else that has the stamp of human creation upon it, evolves with the evolution of mankind. But the cycles of evolution do not always move in a straight line. As historians tell us, humanity has moved through many a curve and spiral of development and retrogression. Of course, when we speak of development we do not refer merely to the technological side but to man as a whole — man in his totality, his self-regard and his relation with the world he inhabits.
Illness: an evolutionary perspective
By Unknown Author - Jan 15, 2010
A new world will be a world free of doctors, lawyers, policemen and priests. This is what I fancy, since though these four professions were originally meant to remove suffering, falsehood, unconsciousness and ignorance upon earth, they have most of the time, perhaps unwittingly, become perpetuators of the very same evil they were meant to uproot.
Metaphysics and health – evolution of the concept of Integral Health
By Soumitra Basu - Jul 15, 2010
Should metaphysics be related to health? It is justified to do so. Our world-view progresses from two directions. We can start from the ground reality, gathering scattered evidence, correlating multiple variables and methodically progressing, brick by brick, until a tsunami of fresh ideas usurps the logic construct to rebuild a new foundation. The passage is not smooth but that is how deductive knowledge progresses through trials and errors, constructing and deconstructing hypotheses based on mutable laws governing a flux of probabilities and possibilities.