Journal

Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis 2025, Vol. 62-1

ISSN

0582-2351

e-ISSN

2953-1446

Title

EDUCATION OF MEDICINE INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL OR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINAL KNOWHOW AND TRAINING? THE CHALLENGE IN EDUCATION OF PLURALISTIC HARMONY MONISM.

Author

Fernand J. Vandamme

Pages

83-102

Keywords

Ayurvedic medicine, Blossom Bach therapy, dualism, monism, Pluralistic Harmony Monism, scientific paradigm, TCM: Traditional Chinese Medicine, TOAM: Traditional or Alternative Medicine.

Abstract

In Education in general and especially in education of medicine it is relevant to be aware that there are a lot of different approaches, some older then thousands of years. There is a variety of different scientific paradigms. It is crucial to be tolerant and open for different views and methods. In most cases, integration, cooperation, realizing harmony between different approaches proves to be best and most successful. Western oriented Medicine in combination with “TOAM: Traditional Or Alternative Medicine” knowhow and training or vice versa is the real challenge. Moreover one must be aware that there is a large variety of scientific paradigms. They are characterised by following criteria: (A) Some empiric observation component (more or less abstract); (B) Some theoretical components (some specific terminology: symbols which can be strongly metaphorical); (C) Some operations (including deductive, inductive or other derivations); (D) Some links between A and B or vice versa based on the operators C.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.57028/S62-083-Z1076

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