SOCH111- HISTORY OF HEALING ASSESSMENT 1 – WRITTEN ESSAY Naturopathy, whole healing system, is a holistic system of medicine based, which is to find the reason of disease and to treat the disease in a natural way. (Ehrlich, 2011) Naturopathy translates as “nature disease” from Greek and Latin. Naturopathy has a variety of modalities such as nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, remedial massage, and so on. (Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, 2013) Iridology is a modality of naturopathy that uses a technique to analyse the structure of the iris of the eye, which is a portion of the colour in the eye. (Jensen 1980, p2) This essay compares whole Healing system, Naturopathy and modality, Iridology considering when and by who were they invented, how have the therapies changed over time, what philosophies do they have about healing, how do they define the terms ‘health’ and ‘ disease’ and how whole healing system and modality are similar.
Heather Poland Med. History Mr. Hysell March 4, 2013 Adelard of Bath—A Questioning Spirit Adelard of Bath was a teacher of Arabic science who was born in England in 1080 and died in 1145. Adelard studied in France and traveled to numerous Muslim lands and soon built an outlook on Aristotle’s philosophic approach. Adelard gave greater attention to the natural world and what it consisted of. Adelard’s nephew was responding to Adelard’s thoughts of Aristotle and God in the article Natural Questions.
From these origins, both naturopathy and acupuncture have grown and advanced to the more scientific based practice they are today (Thiel 2000, p.5). Naturopathy originated as a science distinct from loosely gathered fragments of natural therapy (Trattler & Jones 2001, p.3). Of these natural therapies was; primarily hydrotherapy, and natural cure involving basic elements of food, water, air, light, rest, and herbs to combat disease (Thiel 2000, p.3). For centuries naturopathy has remained a vital practice of medicine alongside orthodox medicine’s methods of drugs and surgery, continuing to provide
Theresa Gibson Models The Humoral Concept, Anatomical Theory and the Germ Theory What is the importance of the Humoral Concept, the Anatomical and the Germ Theory? Throughout this essay I will discuss and explain the role that these concepts have played on Health and Wellness in today’s society. I will also discuss the historical significance that these concepts have played in Health and Wellness. What is the Humoral Concept? It is believed that the Humoral Concept comes from the ancient Greeks.
History of Existentialist Theory As long as humankind has been consciously aware of its own existence, there have been existential ponderings. Although the philosophy of existentialism has deep roots within our ancient heritage, it was during the nineteenth century that it started to become a formal system of thought. Its philosophical roots are found in the works of Kierkegaard (1941, 1944) and Nietsche (1954, 1974). Methods of existential therapy have been modeled on the work of Heidegger (1949, 1962, 1966), Husserl (1900, 1962), and the philosophy of Sartre (1939, 1943). From this theoretical background and early clinical work, a myriad of therapies have emerged.
Biomedicine has being in existence since the end of the eighteenth century (Nettleton,1995). It is the major model used by health practitioners to detect diseases (Nettleton, 1995).This biomedical model of health have centred on how the human body functions and how diseases can be stopped, or healed through medical intervention(Taylor and field, 2007). This model continues to be the bedrock in which foundation of health care system is based in the western societies, but there has being a lot of queries concerning its influence on the general pattern of health, since majority of health determinant are social and environmental. Arkinson (1988 p.180)claimed that the biomedical model, which as taken over the formal health care system in the West since the last two decades view health along the reductionist approach. In this approach, illness is said to be caused by injury or infections and there is neglect of the psychological, socio-economical and environmental influences (Taylor and field 2007).
Even though we think of cinema as a twentieth-century phenomenon, the art of animation can be traced back a lot further depending on your definition of the world. Sequential drawings of human and animation figures have been found on ancient Egyptian artwork a many prehistoric cave painting. However, a generally agreed definition of animation would probably be along the lines of “single-frame images viewed in rapid succession by some form of mechanism, to create an illusion of movement”. Pre -1900: The Origins of Animation 1824 – the beginning of modern animation can perhaps be traced back to a paper published by Peter Roget for the British Royal Society, titled “The Persistence of Vision with Regard to Moving Objects”. This theory refereed tot he phenomenon whereby the eye's retina retains an image briefly after it has disappeared, which means that if images are flashed in rapid succession they appear to the human brain as one continuous image.
Biology vs. Sociology Western Medicine, or contemporary medicine, has roots that go as far back as the ancient world of Greece. The Greek physician Hippocrates, named the “father of medicine, laid the foundation for a rational approach to medicine. Hippocrates is credited with the introduction of the Hippocratic Oath for physicians, as well as started the categorization of illnesses as acute, chronic, endemic and epidemic, which are still in use today. During the Middle Ages, Islamic medical pioneers closely studied the Greeks medical research and put much of it into practice. Hospitals, schools, and well stocked libraries and teaching halls were built, and during the period of the ninth to eleventh century, medical practice became highly respected as it flourished.
The foundation of the field of geology itself in the middle of the nineteenth century paved the way for archaeology. Previous to scientists such as Cuvier, Smith, Hutton, and Lyell (page 7), the world was thought to be only 6,000 years old in the Western world. With the conscious decision by scholars to examine the natural world as a conglomerate of observable forces, scientists began to notice anomalies in geologic excavations. Things like manmade tools located near deposits of extinct animal skeletons questioned the traditional chronology of contemporary knowledge. In 1959 the scientists Sir Joseph Prestwich and John Evans studied these anomalies and popularized in the scientific community what is known as the “antiquity of man,” expanding the lifetime of humanity to be much older than most common folk imagined at the time (page 9).
The Hippocratic Oath, which is among the oldest and most popular medical code still in use today, originally required medical physicians to swear upon Hellenistic pagan deities such as Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, to maintain certain morals and principles as they practiced medicine (Rice University 2014). During the Middle Ages, the mention of the Greek deities in the Oath has been replaced by the Christian God as the Oath is rediscovered and reintroduced to popular usage (Hulkower 2010, p. 42). It is also during this period, as Hulkower points out (2010, p. 42), when the Oath was altered to ‘conform to medieval Christian doctrines’. The influence of religion is clear in the Hippocratic Oath, as religious undertones have been present since its inception, having only evolved over time in accordance with the shifting religious paradigm of Europe (i.e. from the Greco-Roman religion to