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Professionalization of Chinese medicine practice in Canada: from medical pluralism to neo-orientalism
Chinese medicine came to Canada during the twentieth century in the hands of ethnic Chinese immigrants. This paper investigates the key features of...
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“Different names for the same thing”? Novelty, expectations, and performative nominalism in personalized and precision medicine
This paper explores the complementary and contrasting uses of the terms ‘personalized medicine’ and ‘precision medicine’ in denotations of a...
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Does family medicine reduce household health expenditures: evidence from Türkiye
Türkiye introduced a family medicine-centered primary healthcare model in 2005 as part of the Health Transformation Program, which aimed to reduce...
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Implementing Preventive Medicine in Bosnia Through Genetic Counseling
This chapter identifies and discusses several factors all stakeholders may use to implement preventive medicine in Bosnia through genetic counseling....
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Strengthening Capacity of Tribal Communities to Revitalise Tribal Medicine Through Research, Education and Outreach
More than 200 biomedicines have originated from traditional or ethnomedicine. However, the translation from traditional medicine to biomedicine...
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Childhood in Crisis: Are Medicine and Psychology Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Medicine and psychology are key disciplines when it comes to childhood, particularly if it is problematized. In this chapter, Reibling, Ariaans, and...
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Electronic Ecomap as an Instrument to Improve Physician–Family Interaction in Preventive Medicine
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the main causes of mortality in low-income countries are communicable diseases, maternal and...
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System: Medicine, Intention, and Terministic Screens
Kenneth Burke rarely used the word “intention” and yet the problematics of intention seep throughout his Dramatistic screen. His direct articulation...
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Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosnia
Genetic Counseling and Preventive Medicine in Post-War Bosniaoffers a unique new perspective to longstanding debates on healthcare reforms in...
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Dealing with the Fear and Social Stigma of the Pandemic: Medley of Preventive Healthcare Practices in India
Modern medicine essentially arose as a response to the Industrial Revolution and the new kinds of microbes/viruses associated with it. With the mass...
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THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE, healthcare innovation through precision medicine: policy case study of Qatar
In 2016, the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) published its Forum Report on precision medicine “ PRECISION MEDICINE - A GLOBAL ACTION PLAN...
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Society as Cause and Cure: The Norms of Transgender Social Medicine
This article analyzes how trans health was negotiated on the margins of psychiatry from the late 1970s and early 1980s. In this period, a new model...
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Features of Nigeria’s Healthcare System
This chapter highlights several features, more illustrative than exhaustive, of Nigeria’s healthcare system: a huge burden of diseases relative to...
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Personalised Medicine: Problems of Translation into the Human Domain
This chapter explores translational challenges in the era of precision or personalised medicine, which is also called “P4 medicine”. It argues that...
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Preventive Geriatrics—A Way Towards Active Ageing
The elderly (>60 years) population in India is on rise and now constitutes 9% of total population. The population in India is greying at much faster...
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Just data? Solidarity and justice in data-driven medicine
This paper argues that data-driven medicine gives rise to a particular normative challenge. Against the backdrop of a distinction between the good ...
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The Need for Recovering the Subjugated Knowledge of Traditional Chinese Medicine
This short article will explore the question of COVID-19 vaccine as a global public good, and examine the potential of Traditional Chinese Medicine...