Holistic Medicine and IT

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and does not consist only of the absence of disease or infirmity 

THE NEW IT-BASED MEDICINE SOME BETTER PRINCIPLES OF ANCIENT AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 

The WHO, in other words, emphasizes health as well-being in its broadest sense, in terms of mental state and social interactions with the rest of society. The results might have been less effective in the absence of modern biomedical science, but the ability to offer care and counsel within this larger holistic picture, we have noted, was easier for the ancient village shaman and 

The Engines of Hippocrates From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics, by Barry Robson and O.K. Baek Copyright 2009 by John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

But why should the pharmaceutical industry care about ancient science, old wives tales, and fringe beliefs Again, it is reasonable to suppose that 

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Before Western conservative medical hardliners decide to skip this chapter as pandering to unscientific faddish and cultish tastes, they should note that there are real indications that many physicians and medical scientists would at least like to turn the tide. The very conservative Royal Society of Medicine in London October 2000 had a conference on the theme Healthcare for the Whole Person Is Holistic Medicine More Healthy and it received a generally favorable opinion. The First International Conference on Holistic Healthcare was held in Copenhagen, November 1 and 2,2004 on the scientific aspects of holistic medicine and its now being perceived no longer as an occult, or naive and unscientific approach. 

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