1. Medicine & Healing Team Name: 2 Guys & 3 Girls Andy Chang Nancy Avila
Brian Rice
Dhara Jogani
Laune Thomas

2. Topics Dhara- Allopathic Medicine Brian- Holistic/Empirist Healing
Laune- Women in Healing
Andy- Women in Medicine
Nancy- Takeover Theory in Medicine
Andy Chang

3. Allopathic Medicine
Dhara Jogani

4. Allopathic Medicine Definition Who Practices it? History
Types of Treatment (Healing)
Various Names
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5. Definition
The system of therapy based on the concept that disease can be treated with drugs (in minute doses) thought capable of producing the same symptoms in healthy people as the disease itself.
Example: common cold.
Dhara Jogani

6. Who Practices it? MDs ( Medical Doctor) Also known as Allopath
Surgeons
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7. History In 1842, it was coined by Samuel Hahnemann
Allos “opposite” and pathos “suffering”
19th century in U.S.A
Based on ancient Greek
Humoral Theory
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8. Types of Treatment Two main types of Treatment include: Surgery
Therapy
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9. Other Names Conventional Medicine Western Medicine
Evidence-based medicine
Clinical Medicine
Scientific Medicine
Regular Medicine
Mainstream Medicine
Authoritarian Medicine
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10. Holistic/Empiricist Medicine
The Curing of the whole body
Brian Rice

11. Development of Holistic health
Holistic medicine is the curing of the individual parts of the body to make a better whole
As far back as 5000 years ago, India and China had stressed the healthy way of life in “harmony” with nature.
“for the part can never be well unless the whole is well” –Socrates
Brian Rice

12. You cannot treat only the disease
The belief is that under some conditions the medical cures are more harmful than the disease itself.
You cannot treat only the disease
Brian Rice

13. Holistic Principles What you consume is what you are.
Every part of the body effects each other part, ultimately effecting the whole.
Cells are replaced constantly, without the correct building blocks, they cannot become healthy cells
Brian Rice

14. Nicotine, caffeine, sugar, and negative attitudes
Majority of illnesses and early death can be traced back to a persons’ lifestyle choices.
Nicotine, caffeine, sugar, and negative attitudes
All of these things can harm you physically and mentally
Brian Rice

15. How is Holistic Health Practiced?
Holistic health focuses on reaching higher levels of wellness
The Wellness Continuum
Illness
Maximum well-being
Brian Rice

16. The far right of the wellness continuum is what is strived for
The left is illness, the lack of taking care of oneself.
Impossible to reach maximum wellness.
Holistic healing is not a quick fix, it instead focuses on the causes of symptoms and how to eliminate them
Brian Rice

17. Historical Goddesses Isis Brigit Ninisinna Ninhursag
Women in Healing
Historical Goddesses
Isis
Brigit
Ninisinna
Ninhursag
Laune Thomas

18. Isis Great Goddess of Egypt Deity of Healing
Originated the Science of Medicine
Laune Thomas

19. Brigit Irish Goddess Goddess of healing and medicine Celtic Triple
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20. Ninisinna Sumerian Goddess Goddess of Healing and the Art of Medicine
Patron Goddess of the City of Isin
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21. Ninursag Summerian Goddess Earth-mother Goddess
“Lady of the Foothills”
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22. Women in Medicine
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23. Elizabeth Blackwell
First American women to gain admission to medical school.
In 1847, she was accepted to Geneva Medical School in Geneva, New York.
Was admitted by accident.
Faculty did not want to accept women but the student body put this issue to vote and accepted her.
Andy Chang

24. American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA)
First established in 1915.
Organization of about 10,000 female physicians and medical students.
Founded by Bertha VanHoosen.
AMWA’s mission was to advance women in medicine and improve women’s health.
Andy Chang

25. The Takeover in Healing & Medicine
A journey to the past in order to understand the reality of the present
Nancy Avila

26. The “Takeover Theory”: A Brief Recap
A Decline in the power of women due to:
The introduction of Christianity
Discovery of male role in procreation
The domestication of animals
Cults of Domesticity and Invalidism
Nancy Avila

27. Primitive Times and the Role of Women
Two Basic Assumptions:
Women were the first healers, helping in western and other cultures until the invasion of men.
Any remedy, treatment, surgical procedure, or instrument invented before this male takeover can be attributed to a woman or women.
Nancy Avila

28. Evidence of Women’s Early Role
Mythology
The existence of healing
goddesses
Arts and Crafts
Ancient pots portray the curer as a woman wearing a shawl
(South America: Moche people of Peru)
Literature and History
Clay tablet (earliest medical document in Mesopotamia)
records herbal and natural remedies (Women were
associated with knowledge of herbal medicine and
curative remedies).
Nancy Avila

29. Evidence of Women’s Early Role (cont.)
Anthropology/Archaeology
Scandinavian women’s graves contain surgical instruments not found in men’s graves
Pharmacology
In 1962 a study of 175 ancient plants revealed that 64 of them were “physiologically active”.
Common Sense
Women’s role as caregivers and nurturers
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30. What Went Wrong? “Witch-Burning Holocaust”
Medicine becomes a profession
Women are rejected from medical schools
Male domination of social and economic position of women
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31. What Happens Next… Reproductive Takeover
Instead of midwives an emergence in male midwives occurs.
Obstetrical forceps
Women Healer Survivors communicate knowledge to male relatives
Paracelsus: Author of more than 300 books on medicine.
Males take Control of the History of Medicine
Manuscripts were written by men creating historical bias
Males are Physicians; Females are nurses
Nancy Avila

32. Primitive Women’s Ideas in Modern Medicine
Herbal Plants
Early medications contained natural ingredients which modern scientific analysis have shown to be curative such as digitalis and natural antibiotics
Dream-Incubation (Early Circum-Mediterranean women)
Modern clinical psychologist Karen Hagerman uses technique for treating rape victims
Heat Therapy
In modern times used for cancer therapy
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33. Slowly Regaining What Was Lost
1945: Harvard Medical School admits women
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34. Women in Medicine -- Today
25.2% of US physicians are female
49% of medical school applicants are female
10 deans of US medical schools are female
Women physician are in leadership positions throughout the profession and organized medicine
2002 AMA
Nancy Avila

35. Quiz
Andy Chang

36. Question #1
What is Allopathic Medicine?
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37. Question #2
What is Holistic Medicine?
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38. Question #3
Name 2 female historical goddesses in healing and medicine.
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39. Question #4
Who was the first American women to be admitted to medical school?
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40. Question #5
What does AMWA stand for?
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