Divergence Of Greek And Chinese Medicine

In the reading “The Brown Girl’s Guide to Labels” by Mathangi Subramanian, the author talks about the obstacles she faced growing up as a minority and the different lives her white friends lived compared to her. Growing up as a minority myself, I can relate to some of the experiences Subramanian had. One thing that really caught my attention was how Subramanian never viewed herself as a feminist because “only white girls call themselves that”. I also had a problem with this and never really viewed myself as a feminist until this class. I found it extremely interesting that the author never truly labeled herself a feminist even after her mother declared herself as one until she read an article written by Chandra Mohanty,

On the other hand, western medicine doctors diagnose the problem by observing the physical symptoms, screening the blood, and perform various other medical techniques that rely on advanced medical education and training. Doctors are concerned with the physical symptoms and disregard the “soul” which in turn conflicts with the Hmong culture because they believe in souls and higher mental processes. Fadiman’s proved that the central argument was the collision between the Hmong culture and the physical disease treatment of western medicine.

In the first synthesis essay, examination of worldview was identified as one of the most important concepts necessary to understand and interpret medical anthropology. Worldview is the reason that there are many different types of medical systems. As explained in lecture, these include diagnosis, healing, and some form of payment to the healer. The study of these different medical systems falls under the term ethnomedicine. Singer describes ethnomedicine as the idea that all medical systems develop from “particular sociocultural systems regardless of the scale of the society.” For example our US healthcare system, based on western worldview, is a hierarchy of administrators who tell the doctors what they can and cannot do. Our devotion to the US healthcare system stems from our need to label the symptom or disease such as nasal drip and a cough can be labeled as a common cold. The worldview seen here is the need for immediate cures to avoid interrupting our busy lives. On the other hand, in “Touching the Timeless” with Billy Yellow from the Navajo tribe, there are many steps to prepare for his healing ritual such as the sweat hogan, where purification rituals are performed, in this case, before a strong spiritual ritual can be done. Thus understanding the worldview that comes with the development of medical systems is vital to understanding why the practices are being used and being able to compare these medical systems cross culturally.

In this essay Martin Preib, a small town journalist and police officer records his daily life on the job as rookie police officer. On Preib’s second day out of the Chicago Police Academy, sergeant handed him a large, heavy plastic bag and informed him that this would be a good experience. He was also provided with an enclosed truck that was slightly bigger than a van with “Police” on on its sides and rear. The wagon was used to not only transport newly arrested suspects for questioning or lockup but to carry dead bodies to the morgue. During the progression of the essay, Preib describes transporting patients in body bags, how he has an unlikely connection with his female partner, trains a younger officer and finds himself with people that are rendered invisible or forgotten by society. Preib depicts the complication of race and class in the heavily populated urban area.

Many different forms of medicine are currently practiced in the world. In fact, as our text states, “in all cultures, some people have become recognized as having special abilities to treat and diagnose health problems.” (Miller 107) Without argument, phytomedicinal and supernatural healers are two forms of medical treatment that have been around for longer than any other, regardless of culture. It has been estimated that shamanism has been practiced for over ten thousand years (Tyson 3). Native American and Celtic healers are often known as shamans.

For this paper I will be discussing and comparing the medical practices and belief system surrounding medicine in the Maya and Aztec cultures. This will be accomplished through a discussion of the archaeological evidence at ancient sites, testimony from the Spanish conquerors who were witness to these practices and modern medical practices in rural areas of Mesoamerica that have persisted from ancient times to the present day. These methods have been tested and found to be somewhat effective in treating a wide range of ailments and are still useful today. (CITE)

This semester we have heard multiple lectures which centered on the Chinese or Daoist cultures, which have multiple similarities and are in many facets built on each other. In the lecture about Daoism, Dr. Ronnie Littlejohn, spoke of transcendent bodies and concentrated mainly on qi (Littlejohn). While Dr. Yuan-ling Chao’s lecture about Chinese medicine was about maintaining

The human body has been proven to be one of the most powerful examples of intelligent design that a theistic apologist has to offer. Every last inch of the human being exhibits amazing amounts of design that powerfully makes the case for the existence of God. In Wayne Jacksons, The Human Body—Accident or Design, he brilliantly makes the case for an intelligent designer going section by section through the “average” human body (while also using the words of secular scientists to help make the case for design). Today there are so many who simply believe evolution as being the only rational way to explain the existence of mankind. One primary reason they state this is because, to them, the idea that an intelligent Designer created everything that

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I have discovered that touch therapies have great potential to result in significant cost savings to patients due to the fact that touch therapy is less expensive than pharmaceuticals and it is safe in comparison to prescription medicines in that contraindications such as drug dependency, allergic reaction, and long term side effects could be significantly diminished or totally eliminated. Therefore, this investigation has explored the use and benefits of various touch therapies throughout the human life span and has also examined research from wide-spread geographical regions which includes the development of touch modalities originating from several cultures. As a result, the healing modalities of healing touch, therapeutic touch, reiki, emotional freedom technique, acupressure, massage and others have been examined in detail. In addition succinct description of energetic anatomy of humans has been included, when appropriate, to bring clarity and deeper understanding as to how the touch therapies work. In order to fulfill the required University Outcomes, ethical considerations, social and global relevance, and Health and Wellness principles around the touch therapies have also been integrated into this

Two civilizations can influence each other while still maintaining their own identity that comes from their differences. People despite different upbringing have a common goal in both China and Greece such as putting in a structure for people to follow and to have a faith based on facts. Both civilizations are considered unique because they did not produce religions but instead philosophies. Women are seen as unequal to men in both civilizations even though that in Athens women had some rights they were not nearly equal to men. Both civilizations are a great distances apart therefore trade was not always ideal until later into there civilizations.

Human beings are aware and observational creatures. Once confronted with an issue, they often find a solution that relates to their observations and understandings of how something works. This technique commonly pertains to the practice of medicine. In ancient Greece, each observation about health of the body completely shaped the treatment of patients by physicians. Additionally, these ideas went into common practices used in the general maintenance of health.

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Yet they performed them in other ways from each other. The specific example is about surgery. In Ancient China, surgery has been a great rarity, although it has been practiced in Western societies for thousands of years. The reluctant of surgery is attributed in the views of harmony and relationship. The balance of forces in the body is what leads someone to be healthy. Also that the bodies internal organs are all related to one another. For example, the surface of the ears and internal organs are related to each other. So the Chinese cured by “Acupuncture”. Which is a system of complementary medicine that involves pricking the skin or tissues with needles in which is to alleviate pain and to treat various medical conditions. It is not understandable for Chinese that to cure a disease one must fix or remove the part that is malfunctioning in the body, to be beneficial. It is too simply for them. Ancient China ultimately thought that in order to be cured from disease you must have a high spiritual complex. Yin and yang for instance. As for the Greeks, they were very experimental. Yes, they had their ideology of imbalance and maintaining the four humors. Except they found a different way to maintain that balance. Surgery. Essentially, if a Greek doctor notice’s a patient’s humor out of balance, meaning not in equal to the other humors they would easily make a puncture on their arm and drain

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