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Cross Cultural Health Perspective

Cross Cultural Health Perspective

Cross Cultural Health Perspective

Global education and science are about to evolve . To this point in history all universities and medical scholars have relied on the Western pool of information to provide both content and method . This has made sense since Western medicine has been successful as well as providing education in its nature . Eastern medicine , however , is steeped in tradition (Mashbubani , 2006 . and many of the Eastern practitioners have traveled to the west and learned Western medicine only to return home and find that there are

many older more traditional treatments that work better . The revolution begins soon

Western medicine is founded on a capitalistic tradition . However the paradigm comes that all thing are proven and cured by science . The Western model of prevention is also medicine founded in science Everything is analyzed and all things are taken apart to see how they work in to prevent them from breaking down and that includes the human body . An example of Western medicine is psychotherapy . In the West , it is about private self concerned with the individual while in the Eastern cultures it is about public life and history , it is much more than privacy and so goes medicine in general (Airhebebbuwa , 1995 That would make psychoanalysis inappropriate in Eastern medicine . The Western paradigm at a time when it is needed to have good public health interventions and keep people out of the hospital may not work as well as Eastern medicine . In fact many...

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