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What Historians of Medicine Can Learn from Historians of Capitalism
Bull Hist Med. 2020;94(3):319-367. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2020.0065.ABSTRACTAfter briefly surveying the New History of Capitalism and its objectives, this article explores ways that the history of medicine and the history of capitalism can productively interact. The article argues that historians of medicine should adopt a broad definition of "capitalism" to accommodate the distinctive nature of medical and health care markets. Across millennia and diverse cultures, medical markets have demonstrated extensive commodification, with spiritual or religious goods and services composing a significant portion of commercial trade. More...
Source: Bulletin of the History of Medicine - January 8, 2021 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Christy Ford Chapin Source Type: research
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Traditional Indonesian Medicine: A Comparative Review of Herbal Medicines Restricted in Pregnancy
AbstractThe decline in birth rates has become a very serious problem in various parts of the world. Many countries have implemented national programs for increasing birth rates, one of which involves the use of traditional medicine as an alternative solution. Among the fast-growing traditional medicines, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and traditional Indonesian medicine (TIM) have attracted a lot of demand globally. Here, we analyzed and compared the herbal medicines from TCM and TIM that must be avoided by pregnant women for preventing miscarriage and maintaining safety during pregnancy and the postpartum period. This...
Source: Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine - July 9, 2021 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
A Brief History of Nuclear Medicine Physics, Instrumentation, and Data Sciences in Korea
AbstractWe review the history of nuclear medicine physics, instrumentation, and data sciences in Korea to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine. In the 1970s and 1980s, the development of SPECT, nuclear stethoscope, and bone densitometry systems, as well as kidney and cardiac image analysis technology, marked the beginning of nuclear medicine physics and engineering in Korea. With the introduction of PET and cyclotron in Korea in 1994, nuclear medicine imaging research was further activated. With the support of large-scale government projects, the development of gamma camera, SPECT, and...
Source: Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging - November 12, 2021 Category: Nuclear Medicine Source Type: research
Family medicine training in china.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: In 2010, six ministries of the Chinese government jointly issued a plan for building team-based primary care led by family physicians, prompting the creation of new models of family medicine training across the country. The purpose of this paper is to describe examples of existing family physician training models in China, to present advantages and disadvantages of the various models, and to present a specific model of family medicine residency training implemented at the Zhejiang University Medical School-affiliated Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in collaboration with the Michigan S...
Source: Famly Medicine - May 1, 2013 Category: Primary Care Authors: Dai H, Fang L, Malouin RA, Huang L, Yokosawa KE, Liu G Tags: Fam Med Source Type: research
Jamu: Indonesian traditional herbal medicine towards rational phytopharmacological use
Publication date: June 2014 Source:Journal of Herbal Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 2 Author(s): Elfahmi , Herman J. Woerdenbag , Oliver Kayser Jamu is the Indonesian traditional herbal medicine that has been practised for many centuries in the Indonesian community to maintain good health and to treat diseases. Although modern (conventional) medicine is becoming increasingly important in Indonesia, jamu is still very popular in rural as well as in urban areas. Based on its traditional use jamu is being developed into a rational form of therapy, by herbal practitioners and in the form of phytopharmaceuticals. Jamu has acquired...
Source: Journal of Herbal Medicine - October 12, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Nigeria: Traditional Medicine Practitioners Seek Establishment of Trado-Medical Institutes
[Leadership] The National Association of Nigerian Traditional Medicine Practitioners (NANTMP) had called on the government to approve the establishment of Traditional Medicine Institutes which will aid the promotion of traditional medicine in the country.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 1, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
State risk discourse and the regulatory preservation of traditional medicine knowledge: The case of acupuncture in Ontario, Canada
This study presents a critical, postcolonial analysis of divergent risk discourses elaborated in two contrasting Ontario (Canada) government reports preceding that jurisdiction's regulation of acupuncture, the world's most widely practised TM therapy. The earlier (1996) report, produced when Ontario's regulatory lobby was largely comprised of Chinese medicine practitioners, presents a risk discourse inclusive of biomedical and TM knowledge claims, emphasizing the principle of regulatory ‘equity’ as well as historical and sociocultural considerations. Reflecting the interests of an increasingly biomedical practitioner l...
Source: Social Science and Medicine - August 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Supporting underserved patients with their medicines: a study protocol for a patient/professional coproduced education intervention for community pharmacy staff to improve the provision and delivery of Medicine Use Reviews (MURs)
This study aims to develop, implement and evaluate an e-learning education intervention which is coproduced between patients from underserved communities and pharmacy teams to improve MUR provision.
Methods and analysis
This mixed-methods evaluative study will involve a 2-stage design. Stage 1 involves coproduction of an e-learning resource through mixed patient–professional development (n=2) and review (n=2) workshops, alongside informative semistructured interviews with patients (n=10) and pharmacy staff (n=10). Stage 2 involves the implementation and evaluation of the intervention with community pharmacy staff wi...
Source: BMJ Open - December 8, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Latif, A., Pollock, K., Anderson, C., Waring, J., Solomon, J., Chen, L.-C., Anderson, E., Gulzar, S., Abbasi, N., Wharrad, H. Tags: Open access, Health services research, Medical education and training, Patient-centred medicine Protocol Source Type: research
Traditional Indian Medicine (TIM) and Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM): A Constitutional-Based Concept and Comparison
This study compared Traditional Indian Medicines (TIM) and Traditional Korean Medicines (TKM) basing on data obtained from peer reviewed articles, respective government institutional reports and World Health Organization (WHO) reports. Despite the fact that TIM and TKM have individual qualities that make it unique from each other including different histories of origin, they share a lot in common. Apart from Homeopathy in TIM, both systems are hinged on similar principle of body constitutional-based concept and similar disease diagnosis methods of mainly auscultation, palpation, visual inspection, and interrogation. Simila...
Source: Integrative Medicine Research - March 16, 2017 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Regenerative medicine in India: trends and challenges in innovation and regulation.
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The government of India has heavily promoted research and development in regenerative medicine together with domestic innovation and business development initiatives. Together, these promise a revolution in healthcare and public empowerment in India. Several national and transnational linkages have emerged to develop innovative capacity, most prominently in stem cell and cord blood banking, as well as in gene therapy, tissue engineering, biomaterials and 3D printing. However, challenges remain of achieving regulatory oversight, viable outputs and equitable impacts. Governance of private cord blood banking...
Source: Regenerative Medicine - November 7, 2017 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Tiwari SS, Raman S, Martin P Tags: Regen Med Source Type: research
The Risk of Fatigue and Sleepiness in the Ridesharing Industry: An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Position Statement
The ridesharing—or ride-hailing—industry has grown exponentially in recent years, transforming quickly into a fee-for-service, unregulated taxi industry. While riders are experiencing the benefits of convenience and affordability, two key regulatory and safety issues deserve consideration. First, individuals who work as drivers in the ridesharing industry are often employed in a primary job, and they work as drivers during their“off” time. Such a schedule may lead to driving after extended periods of wakefulness or during nights, both of which are factors that increase the risk of drowsy driving acc...
Source: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : JCSM - April 13, 2018 Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: research
Tracking biomedicalization in the media: Public discourses on health and medicine in the UK and Italy, 1984–2017
This article examines historical trends in the reporting of health, illness and medicine in UK and Italian newspapers from 1984 to 2017. It focuses on the increasing “biomedicalization” of health reporting and the framing of health and medicine as a matter of technoscientific interventions. Methodologically, we relied on two large datasets consisting of all the health- and medicine-related articles published in the online archives of The Guardian (UK) and la Repubblica (Italy). These articles underwent a quantitative analysis, based on topic modelling techniques, to identify and analyse relevant topics in the datasets....
Source: Social Science and Medicine - October 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Analysis on Situation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Development and Protection Strategies in China
AbstractWith the worldwide growing interest and commercial value of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) industries and products, the protection issue of TCM knowledge is increasingly concerned by Chinese government. Here, we investigated the current situation and trend of TCM development and knowledge protection in China through accessing academic research tools including China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang Data, VIP China Science and Technology Journal Database (VIP) and Google Scholar, analyzing the latest data released by National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Statistical Yearb...
Source: Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine - July 3, 2020 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
