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Toward the Philosophy of CAM: Super-system and Epimedical Sciences
Honorary Founder Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Japan
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People commonly think of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as something negative, using terms such as ‘unorthodox’, ‘non-conventional’ or ‘non-Western’. Even in positive terms, it usually sounds like something secondary, complementing orthodox modern Western medicine.
Positive Concept of CAM?
Let us now ask if it is possible to present the idea of CAM in other positive ways. Since more and more people are attracted to CAM, there must be a new point of view from which CAM can be defined affirmatively. Certainly, the people who are turning to CAM are not merely escaping from something: they must be hoping to enter a new horizon of medicine rather than accepting secondary non-orthodox remedies. What is then the central, positive idea of CAM on this new horizon?
Let us first pose a simple question: what is the object of, or who is the subject of CAM? It is now well appreciated that Nature is structured hierarchically.
Nature's Hierarchy and Emergence of ‘Individual’
A Fresh Look at the Patient as an Individual
What has Emerged at the Level of Individual?
Super-system and Epimedical Science
Evidential Basis for Epimedical Science
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