"Why haven't I heard of this before?" - Extra

[More notes on the seemingly slow progress in health sciences.]

[return to Part 1]

First -- Links of Hope
Newsletter from a natural medicine clinic
Explore Magazine article: On approaches central to my Expanded Paradigm concept.
Tolerance of others is needed: "Can Journalism Kill?"  [www.FacingHistory.org]

 

Following is some information about the "politics" of health care, and some of the factors that seem to have affected healthcare progress.

 

1. Divided Legacy series: By historian Harris Coulter.  This describes with careful academic rigor what I categorize as the philosophical and social divergence of the field of medicine and health care into two deeply entrenched camps of approaching life and health.

Divided Legacy Vol 1: The Origins of Modern Western Medicine: Hippocrates to Paracelsus.

Divided Legacy Vol 2; J.B. Van Helmont to Claude Bernard;

Divided Legacy Vol 3: Science and Ethics in American Medicine 1800-1914, the Conflict Between Homoeopathy and the American Medical Association;

Divided Legacy Vol 4: The Bacteriological Era [Book review by Julian Winston]

 

2. Life Extension magazine

 

3. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients: The Examiner of Medical Alternatives. This is an excellent periodical that gives access to information that is otherwise inaccessible to most people.

 

4. Globalization and the Rise of Religion: One of many thoughtful interviews on American Public Media's "Speaking of Faith" with Krysta Tippett.

 

I know many medical doctors and dentists, and their intent is honorable. I believe that science and humanism/spirituality properly applied will give us what we need to thrive and meet humanity's great potential.