Building upon the World Health Organization’s recent publication WHO Strategy for Traditional Medicine (WHO 2002), this paper examines the historical position of “traditional medicines” at their intersection with the development and modernization of a biomedically based health care system in Turkey. This paper considers how the historical development of Turkey’s health care system, as a...Read More
The Divine Viscera: Medicine and Religion in the Islamic Golden Age Medicine, as we know it, was born of centuries of development. In the traditional story of Western history, Ancient Greeks began that development with figures such as Hippocrates and Galen, and, inspired by Classical knowledge, the European Renaissance carried on the process of furthering...Read More
Medicine languished for many centuries after the death of the Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, medicine’s founding fathers. The bubonic plague, which started around 500 A.D., was partly to blame. It took its toll over the next 200 years and signalled the beginning of Europe’s Dark Ages. War, disease, superstition and religious zealotry were rife....Read More
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