Abstract
The paper explains the philosophy of medicine and Western views that support the allopathic viewpoint. The paper then details the criticism levelled at conventional medicine, which concerns allopathic medicine's lack of understanding of the holistic and interconnected nature of human health. The paper concludes that there is no doubt that modern allopathic medicine has brought about incredible advances in disease control and healthcare. The paper also shows, however, that there are also many risks and dangers to this form of medicine that are not as widely known or publicized.

Outline:
Introduction
The Negative Aspects of Allopathic Medicine
Conclusion

From the Paper
"A definition of allopathic medicine is: "The system of medical practice which treats disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the disease under treatment." (Definition of Allopathic medicine) Allopathic medicine is also known as formal or conventional medicine and refers to accepted Western health and medical practices. The term "allopathic" originated in 1842 and is ascribed to C.F.S. Hahnemann who used the terms to differentiate conventional medicine from homeopathy, which is a system of medicine based on producing the same symptoms as the disease or disorder. (Definition of Allopathic medicine)"

Tags:Western, health, holistic, disease, control, antibiotics

Abstract
This paper discusses the topic of allopathic medicine or modern medicine. It examines how the allopathic approach to medicine has shown itself to be more kill than cure and how a change is desperately needed. It shows how modern allopathic medicine oppresses women and treats childbearing and childhood as a pathology and in general it takes a terrible toll with unnecessary and even dangerous techniques. It argues how modern medicine is in collusion with the pharmaceutical and insurance industries to create a system of profit rather than health and how the only effective alternative is to turn back to natural cures, to proper nutrition and diet and a holistic approach to healing.

From the Paper
"While women are far more likely to have unnecessary surgeries (other than circumcision) performed on them, allopathic medicine's rush to operate is nearly criminal in all cases. In a review of New York hospitals, 43% of hysterectomies reviewed were shown to be unnecessary. Mendelsohn records that the most conservative estimates suggest that about 2.4 million unnecessary surgeries are performed every year. The number is likely far higher than that when one takes into account that even "officially" necessary surgeries may not always be the best choice. Men as well as women suffer in this regard. Doctors overprescribe pharmaceutical medicines designed to treat rather than to cure. They also perform hosts of unnecessary surgeries. Even surgeries that may seem necessary are no guarantees. For example, according to Smith's research, there is no difference in long term survival between those with cardiac problems who agree to undergo surgery (and survive it) and those who do not undergo surgery."

Tags:child, birth, circumcision, surgery, nutrition, diet

Abstract
This paper explains that an extremely aggressive medical care system has created a cost prohibitive demand for heroic measures rather than a system that takes the whole of the community into account and allows the consumer preventative care and reasonable end-of-life care. The author stresses that the middle class is most significantly feeling the strangling effects of this out-of-control medical system and ethic. The paper concludes that the bottom line of this multivariate situation is that there seems to be very little real accountability. The paper includes many quotations.

From the Paper
"For example, in a logical capitalistic situation, the price to utilize a particular piece of equipment should go down as demand goes up to offset the initial cost of producing and or acquiring the product. Yet, the costs seem to continue to rise regardless of how many other people have been charged $2,000 to use the equipment costing about 50 cents per minute to run the equipment for a test period of no longer than 30 minutes in most cases, or how long the equipment has been used. Though this is a far simplified analogy, sustainability should still be at the forefront of thought on the issue of equipment and supplies."

Tags:capitalistic, accountability, out-of-control, insurance, equipment

Abstract
This paper explains that the central hypothesis of osteopathic medicine is that to be healthy the mind, body and spirit must function harmoniously; therefore, a disturbance of one of these parts will cause a total malfunction of the whole. Next, the author contrasts allopathic medicine that argues that a human is largely a biological organism and that his healing process is basically a product of physiological remedies. The paper stresses that osteopathic medicine always uses the patient's own religion as an important preliminary stage in understanding and prescribing treatment for different forms of diseases.

From the Paper
"The administration of treatment is a function of the diagnosis on whose evidence the remedies are sought. The bodily manifestations of the disease are assumed to be the only and complete status of well-being. Allopathic medicine does not provide room for spirituality in its methods because of its methodologies that do not recognize the centrality of the spiritual element in the health of human being. They apply the same methods of treatment and diagnosis like they would do for other organisms. Osteopathic medicine on the other hand is centered on the view that a human being is higher than other forms of organisms precisely on the account that his possession of the spiritual element."

Tags:network, allopathic, treatment, equilibrium, continuum

Abstract
This paper explains that the more common personal health care style is a collective health care process, called alternative medicine or complementary medicine, which includes elements of allopathic practice, non-natural medicine and surgery and of natural medicine. The author points out the idea that natural medicine is actually traditional medicine and should be looked at as such, with benefits and drawbacks, just as allopathic medicine is consider by many people. As an example of the presented natural health therapies; the paper relates that the Alexander technique, both a natural health practice and a restorative natural medical treatment, is a technique used to reduce repetitive motion injury by retraining the body to move in a different, more natural way.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Natural Health
Hydrotherapy
Herbalism
Eclectic Medicine
Natural Hygiene
Natural Philosophy
Natural Healing
Natural Medicine
Fingernail and Tongue Analysis
Iridology
Hair Analysis
Live Blood Analysis (Darkfield Microscopy) and Dry Blood Analysis
Antibody (IgE, IgG) Test for Food Allergies
Acid-Alkaline Balance (Ph Testing)
Alternative Therapies
Acupuncture
Acupressure
Air Supply Personal Air Purifier
Alexander Technique.
Aromatherapy
Astropulse
Ayurveda
Bathing Therapy
Biomagnetics (Magnetic Field Energy Therapy)
Electro-Dermal Screening
Chelation Therapy
Chi Lel
Chiropractic Treatment
Colloidal Silver Therapy
Colonic Therapy (Colon Lavage, Colon Hydrotherapy)
Color Therapy (Chromotherapy)
Crystal Healing
Dental Amalgam Mercury Removal
Detoxification Therapy
Reflexology
Shiatsu
Rolfing
Fasting
Feng Shui Balance
Flower Essence Therapy
Food Detoxification
Flotation Tank
Glandular Therapy
Prayer
Guided Imagery (Visualization)
Herbal Medicine
Homeopathy
Hydrotherapy
Hypnotherapy
Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy
Juicing
Kinesiology
Laughter (Play) Therapy
Light Beam Generator Therapy
Light Therapy (Solar Therapy)
Lymphatic Therapy
Macrobiotics Diet
Massage Therapy
Moxibustion
Music and Sound Therapy
Naturopathy
Osteopathy
Oxygen Therapy
Radionics (Radiesthesia Dowsing), Reflexology
Reiki (Therapeutic Touch)
Infrared Heat Therapy
Vitamin C Therapy
Yoga
Holistic Nutrition
Food Safety
Exercise
Conventional Medicine
Maintaining Health

From the Paper
"In the time surrounding the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), in America, medicine was often seen as a part-time practice, conducted by laywomen and men who had a vocation for the healing arts or who inherited the knowledge from ancestral teachers. These healers who took care of their friends and families illnesses, injuries and births performed most medicine, outside the major centers of population. "Of course, these natural healing practices varied from locality to locality with major cities, like Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City having hospitals and other medical practices approaching those found in Europe.""

Tags:history, native, traditional, diet, complementary

Abstract
In this article, the writer notes that for those unfamiliar with the world of health care, medical practitioners and nurses would appear to be of the same discipline. The writer then points out that this is far from the truth, as the allopathic medical model of patient care and the more holistic model of nursing care differ in both essential and minor ways. This paper discusses the differences between nursing and medicine with regards to history, focus, education and career flexibility. The writer notes that nurses and physicians work side-by-side in the same setting every day and that each discipline needs the other in order to provide comprehensive health care for the patient. The writer concludes that one could say that nurses have been trained to treat the patient while physicians are trained to treat the disease.

Outline:
History
Focus
Education
Flexibility

From the Paper
"That being said, the focus of the physician in the treatment setting is to cure the disease which brings the patient in. To the nurse, the focus is more holistic. Nurses enlist the patient and family as active participants in care, with a focus on wellness. Nurses focus on the education of patient and family in disease management, personal hygiene and transmission prevention, and many other psycho-social elements of illness and disease. Despite the movement of medicine towards prevention and evidence based intervention, it is still the primary focus of the physician to "make the patient well". While the nurse also wants the patient to be well, he or she will also want to help the patient understand the disease and empower the patient to prevent relapse."

Tags:patient, care, hospital, physician

Abstract
This work is a research study investigating alternative therapies in medical treatment. The paper looks at allopathic medicine, holistic medicine, complimentary and alternative Medicine and integrated medicine. Discussed are the pros and cons of these types of medicines over 'traditional' medicine and how these may serve to compliment traditional medicine.

Outline:
Abstract
Objective
Introduction
Categories of CAM
Questions of Research
Literature Review
Discussion
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The study of Lengacher et al., (2006) was in order to make identification of the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) that relieves symptoms and side effects among women diagnosed with breast cancer and to make identification demographic and clinical factors associated with the use of CAM in these patients. The study design is one that was "a descriptive, cross sectional survey in the setting of clinics and community groups in the Tampa Bay area and community groups in the rural Midwestern area."

Tags:naturopathic, meditation, AUASI, therapy

Abstract
This paper explains that, in addition to an acute incidence of AIDS, the local disease situation including bubonic plague, cholera, dengue fever, hepatitis A, malaria, meningitis, schistosomiasis and typhoid fever, presents an increased opportunity for selling medical supplies in Africa's Mozambique. The author points out that Mozambique's severe, generalized AIDS epidemic handicapped by a meager health infrastructure, pockets of population concentration and increased economic contact with adjacent nations with HIV prevalence rates. The paper relates that, although the National Health System (NHS), which is the primary service provider of allopathic service in Mozambique, faces extremely limited human and material resources, the NHS has managed to enhance the coverage of the health system since the last decade through an increase in the health facility infrastructure and health sector staff.

From the Paper
"While entering Africa's anti-AIDS drug market the company has to be considered as the top performer in the Black Economic Empowerment -- BEEE in South Africa and its expansion into the remaining region of Africa is backed by the SA Health Minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang. The new sector of trade and investment into Africa will render a crucial boost to the SA Black business that believes it has a hard task breaking into the white business world. The health minister stated that the local production of the anti-retroviral HIV treatment drugs which is being backed by the World Health Program must be seen in the context of the "regional" meaning of the African continent."

Tags:internet, antiretrovirals, cost, treatment, services

Abstract
This paper explores women's health issues in the 19th century. The writer suggests that the attitudes of men toward women were central to issues concerning women's health. The paper looks at primitive gynecologic practices, allopathic medicine, personalities including midwife Martha Ballard and trends such as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The writer concludes that studying the history of the progress in women's health is an excellent way for women to learn what they will have to do to improve their own futures.

From the Paper
"In the 19th century, any female complaint was likely to be considered a nervous disorder. The woman in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is the victim of what contemporary men labeled "hysteria" for which many hysterectomies were performed. Getting out from behind that male imposed wallpaper was a major effort of will for women. If she complained too much, a woman would most likely be subjected to the new hysterectomy procedure developed by Dr. Robert Battley, which had a very high mortality rate. Doctors like the husband in Gilman's story provoked a reactionary movement that included the efforts of Dr. John Kellogg and Dr. Sylvester Graham, part of the popular health movement that flourished from 1820-1870. They encouraged loose, healthy clothing, exercise and steam baths for both sexes, advocated vegetarian, whole wheat, alcohol free diets and strongly rejected masturbation as sinful, lawless and unhealthy."

Tags:feminist, hysterectomy, hysteria, gynecology, primitive

Abstract
Examines Hahnemann's theories. His belief that homeopathy was a great advance in the healing arts. His views of causes and healing of chronic disease, and of allopathic physicians. Discusses key terms (miasm, psora). Developing theory. Hahnemann's conceptualization of health and disease in general; the vital force; the disease process.

From the Paper
"Hahnemann on Chronic Diseases

Introduction
In the first few pages of his work on chronic diseases, Hahnemann set forth his thoughts on traditional allopathic practice and his belief that homeopathy represented a great advance, a great gift from God. To him, allopathy was characterized by the draining nature of its remedies which, if they worked, were likely to cause new diseases in the remediation of old ones. Homeopathy, however, was viewed as resolving the root problem in chronic disease and actually healing the patient. The intention in the following pages is to explore this theory of chronic disease, including developing theory and some key terms."