pomo _medicine_?

[jbor]

I imagine that it is an attitude to medicine which takes into account 
alternative practices and methods across time and cultures; and which
attempts to incorporate these into a somewhat more pluralistic and
open-minded approach to health and healing rather than simply basing
everything on the arrogant assumption that "Modern", "Western", "scientific"
practices, principles and procedures are the only and best.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0833/9189_354/57102335/p1/article.jhtml

http://www.healthy.net/dacher/postmodern.htm

http://www.hcrc.org/sram/

It doesn't appear to be a concept which is particularly difficult to
comprehend, nor one which has earnt the derision of the medical community at
large.

best

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>From: Kevin Troy <reven at limits.org>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: pomo _medicine_?
>Date: Fri, Dec 29, 2000, 8:11 AM
>

> Hey all--
> Given the frequent discussion of postmodernism on pynchon-l, I thought
> some of you may be interested in this:
>
>  (From the American Enterprise Institute's bulletin):
>  UPCOMING EVENT
>  Mon, Jan. 8
>  POSTMODERN MEDICINE
>  Sally Satel of AEI and the Yale University School of Medicine will
>  deliver the fifth of the Institute's 2000-2001 Bradley Lectures.
>
>  [$5, held at some AEI building in Washington, DC]
>  [I think they make lecture excerpts available at aei.org]
>
> Does anyone know what "postmodern medicine" could possibly be?  Is that
> when five doctors and nurses argue about the historical attitudes toward
> the patient's illness, and toward the more general concept of "suffering"?
>
> Eh.  Maybe it's just a discussion of _The Birth of the Clinic_.
>
> Kevin Troy