WHAT IS MEDICINE?

Abstract: Medicine is that which helps or heals-the standard dictionary definition. 1 will invoke this term in reference not only to what medical doctors do, but to what anyone does who practices helping and healing, caring or curing. At this conference we have been treated to a magnificent array of helping and healing. We have heard about research, epistemologies, and clinical practices that expand the definition far beyond the pills, potions, and manipulations of the healthcare system in this and other industrialized countries. The concepts we have shared embrace the traditions and history of the world, and reach forward to the frontiers of modernity. The clinical innovations suggest that our babies and grandbabies might grow and flourish in ways undreamed of in history, and that we can live into the prime of our lives in a sprightly and nondisabled fashion-alert and attuned, excited and productive.

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