Medicine

expression through a visual concept known as the Medicine Wheel. The Medicine Wheel is a modern holistic concept with the intention of representing the Anishnaabe Indigenous worldview based on a foundation of holism and creation. Within the wheel is “cardinal directions, the four races of man, medicines, values, teachings, the interrelationship between different aspects of creation, and cycle of life, as well as everything else…

Greek and Roman doctors played a crucial role in the development of medicine and physician practices. Hippocrates of Greece is considered to be the “Father of Medicine.” Hippocrates successor Galen is known as the “Prince of Physicians.” The treatments and ideas of these two people lasted for over 1000 years. It wasn’t until the 16th centuries that their ideas began to face some questions and criticism. People reacted to the criticism with outrage… after all these theories and practices had…

The first safe and effective medicine created was aspirin, introduced in 1899 (Buzzeo). The creation of the first pain-killer was the first step to becoming a drug-obsessed society. Everyone saw how well it worked; consequently, throughout the 1900’s several new drugs were created and introduced, promising to be safe and effective, just like the original aspirin. As more and more pills were created, people were convinced every problem they had was one pill away from being non-existent. Well,…

good technique to the medicine, carries a non-ethical concept and needs to be stopped. Experiments on animals can be viewed as inherent process in the evolution of science, that it had done a lot and still have a lot to do for humanity. Animals should be treated as important piece of a puzzle as the life on earth. But trying to apply human rights on them it is a total misunderstanding, animal testing can have been useful for the past times, but now we need a change the medicine paths. All the…

resulting in skewed and sometimes naive people. However, the acts of “deadly medicine” that occurred during the Holocaust did cause many questions to rise. Questions such as “can science go too far?” and “what is right and wrong in the world of medicine?” entered the minds of many and would forever change the concept of medical ethics. “Deadly medicine” in the Holocaust…

fixing them instead of worrying about them. Becoming more mature and responsible could be a milestone because it shows how a person changes and grows from childhood to adulthood. In “The Medicine Bag”, Martin became more mature by accepting the medicine bag from his grandfather. After accepting the medicine bag, he was also given the responsibility to pass it down to his son. In “Apache Girl’s Rite of Passage”, Dachina was able to become a women after completing a ritual involving many…

• Create their own symbols and develop the symbol’s m earnings through descriptions, actions, and events o f a story. For many stories, understanding the symbolism helps you understand the main message, or theme. “The White Umbrella” and “The Medicine Bag” both use symbols t o illustrate the recurring theme of how it feels to be caught between two worlds. To discover what symbols mean…

Appalachia’s ancestral herbal medicines, or “folk medicine” can be thought of as practices which use spiritual, herbal, and physical methods to treat or prevent illness. Folk medicine is simply nonwestern medicine. Late 19th century and early 20th century midwives looked to the rich landscape to blend healing potions for both the mother and baby. Appalachian women learned…

According to Ellen ‘t Hoen, the founder of the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), the “pool” is at the center of where profit and health collide. The basic premise of the patent pool is for the pharmaceutical companies to profit, while still helping to provide low cost generics to the world’s population. For…

Regenerative Medicine Regeneration is not a new idea at all, lizards have been doing it for thousands of years! According to BioMedCentral.com, Aristotle observed a lizard regenerating its tail in 330 BC (Jessop). However, lizards are not the only animals capable of regenerating a lost or damaged appendage; Zebrafish can regrow a lost fin or even a heart, newts and other amphibians can regrow entire limbs, starfish can regrow their entire body from just a single limb, and a deer can…