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allopathy |
Western biomedicine or modern/conventional medicine |
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complementary/alternative medicine |
other approaches to health and wellness other than Western biomedicine |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
Italian artist who advanced Western biomedicine through anatomy studies |
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William Harvey |
Englishman who first described blood circulation and heart functioning (1628) |
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opiates |
naturally occurring substances |
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opioids |
chemical substances that mimic naturally occurring ones |
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Louis Pasteur |
proved that viruses and bacteria could cause disease |
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qi |
energy - critical aspect of TCM |
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reductionist |
Western biomedicine view of the body as a machine, searches for the small unit that causes illness |
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shamans |
medicine man or woman |
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Tao |
Chinese philosophy: the single unified source where all life in the universe originated |
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Antonius van Leeuwenhoek |
Dutch naturalist who used ground lenses to magnify things 300x |
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Andreas Vesalius |
Flemish physician who advanced Western Biomedicine through anatomy studies |
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Western Biomedicine |
derived from work of Greek physicians such as Galen & Hippocrates, the medicine that an absolute majority of Americans believe in |
