Criticism on Western ymedicine

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1 Criticism on Western ymedicine Doctors take too little time talking to patients. Very often only the symptoms are treated but not the cause of the illness. Too rare are the options of alternative medication and treatments used. The soul is excluded in medicine. Doctors should see and treat their patients integrally.

2 Master s Degree Course Complementary Medicine Cultural Studies Healing (Master of Arts)

3 Institute for Transcultural Health Studies Established November 16th 2007 Interdisciplinary institute of the Viadrina Link between medical science, culture, law and economy

4 The Institute s Board of Directors (I) Prof. Dr. Busch, Intercultural Communication (Collegium Polonicum) Prof. Dr. Dorow, Business Administration (Viadrina, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics) Prof. Dr. Joerden, Philosophy of Law and Ethics (Viadrina, Faculty of Law)

5 The Institute s Board of Directors (II) Prof. Dr. Dr. Knefelkamp, History of Medicine (Viadrina, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies) Prof. Dr. Schröder, Communication Research (Viadrina, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies) Prof. Dr. Albes, Human Medicine ( Heart Center Brandenburg)

6 Advisory Board (A Selection) From the political domain Helga Kühn-Mengel, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Government Representative for the Concerns of Patients Dr. med. Andrzey Kunt, Mayor of the City of Kostrzyn

7 Idea and Concept Linking Complementary with Narrativebased Medicine for a Body-Mind Medicine integral medical science Competences of physicians, chemists, psychotherapists

8 Social and political approaches Academic policy: Improvement of choices for further studies to gain additional qualifications Bologna-process: Lifelong learning, cooperation with extra-mural partners, interfaces between subjects Health care market: Growing sector with strong demand Paradigm shift in medicine and public health sector

9 What is this Master? Master of Arts: expressing the reorientation of medicine, recalling its roots in human science to an Art of Healing A post-graduate degree: second academic degree for professionals in the health sector

10 What is this Master? This Master Course combines Master of Arts (M.A.) common practice in Geisteswissenschaften (Humanities) and Social Sciences and Master of Science (M.Sc.) customary in Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences

11 A Master of Arts for Physicians? Considering cultural and historical aspects, medicine is an anthropological discipline linking natural science and humanities (Geisteswissenschaften) Without a concept of human nature medicine is a purely technically oriented science of mending The academic establishment of a Body-Mind Medicine inside Cultural Studies is reasonable Possibility for graduation and postdoctoral lecture qualification

12 Traditions of Ancient Medicine in East and West Human beings as a unique system of body and mind Healing powers created by speech and communication The impact of music and art on medicine

13 Organisation and Structure of the Master Course Gaining further expert qualifications, while being on the job Only short periods of attendance (40%) Block seminars Internet-based home study (60%)

14 Specified Structure of the Master Course (1) Biological Medicine and related fields Naturopathic treatments Homoeopathy Biological pain therapy Naturopathic treatments Homoeopathy Subject supervision

15 Specified Structure of the Master Course (2) Interdisciplinary constituents Language Culture Communication

16 Specified Structure of the Master Course (3) Speech-culture-communication Public health research Ethnomedicine Ethics Law Economy

17 Specified Structure of the Master Course (4) Additional qualification Psychosomatic primary health care Facilitator training Basic Course Evidence-Based Medicine Autogenetic training Jacobson s Progressive Muscle Relaxation

18 Specified Structure of the Master course (5) Accreditation of students Introductory workouts Master paper Vocal examination

19 Elective Modules Public health research Ethnomedicine (Cultural Transfer) Ethics, Law, Economy

20 Elective Modules Naturopathic treatments Homoeopathy More compulsory modules in planning Energy Medicine Osteopathy

21 Teaching Staff Lecturers from the WHO-Curriculum Biological Medicine Professorships: Professor for transcultural salutogenetic techniques Professor for research methods Professor for quality assurance and management Professor for prevention and health promotion Visiting Professor for Psycho-Neuro-Immunology Assistant professor for transcultural public health

22 Cooperation Partner (1) International Society for Biological Medicine, Baden-Baden International Society for Homoeopathy and Homotoxicology, Baden-Baden International Society for Complementary Medicine Research, Northampton

23 Cooperation Partner (2) Thure von Uexküll-Academy for Integrative Medicine, Frankfurt/Main Society for Scientific Person-Centered Therapy, Cologne Working Group Ethnomedicine (AGEM), Munich Institute for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Potsdam

24 Organisation and Structure of the Master Course In cooperation with medical societies within the framework of a WHO-accredited curriculum Duration: 4 semester at all Tuition fees: 2,500 for each semester

25 Future prospects Growing demand: health care market as biggest growth sector Accompanying and forming the process of reorientation in medicine and health care Quality assurance and management Transparency for patients

26 Future prospects Internationalization of the study course

27 Paradigm Shift in Medicine Relativisation of the natural scientific orientation Pluralism and pragmatism Socio-scientific methods Psychosomatic medicine, Psychoneuroimmunology Bio-Psycho-Social Approach

28 New education programmes in health sciences: an expanding field 20 of 26 public colleges/universities in Berlin and Brandenburg offer 81 health-related study courses Health informatics, biochemical Alzheimer s disease research, drug discovery, rehabilitation, nursing management, nutrition, medical tourism An example for interconnectedness: Master of Arts for Gerontology

29 Complementary Medicine is an Economic Factor Increasing overturn of complementary healthproducts worldwide Growing numbers of complementary medical degrees 30,000 to 50,000 degrees for acupuncture 14,000 degrees for naturopathic treatments 5,500 degrees for homoeopathy 1,200 degrees for anthroposophic treatment

30 Complementary Medicine Complementary medicine is mainly obliged to the humanistic concept Closer to human science than orthodox medicine: Concept of the nature of man Initial Idea: Viktor von Weizsäcker, narrative-based medicine

31 Integrative Medicine No competition with western school medicine Complementary contribution to medical problems and therapies The person of the patient stands in the focuse Providing all kind of knowledge to maintain health

32 Current problems of Complementary Medicine Exceedingly high demand for health care in a complementary-medical area and in health communication Missing quality assurance and insufficient quality management Missing transparency, uncertainty of patients

33 Philosophical precessor Thure von Uexküll Psychosomatic medicine Philosophy versus preliminary medical examination

34 Cultural links to Medical Treatment Communication: Doctor-Patient-Interaction Illness as a cultural construct Qualitative research methods Relation between nature and culture body and soul Ethics

35 Changing attitudes in health care systems Health is more than the opposite of illness Quality of Life and psycho-social health New developments ask for an integral medicine Prevention and health promotion as a cultural process

36 Narrative Medicine Does not replace medical therapy Accompanies and supports the self-healing process Is also the skill to listen Focuses endogene human resources Coaches the patient to build up a better sense of coherence with hisself

37 Narrative Medicine Research-based and practically oriented Quality assurance: SalutoCert Network of academic institutions for teaching, expertship and medical observation concerning the contents of the study

38 Fundamentals of the Narrative-Based Medicine Salutogenesis (Antonovsky) Body-related Psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine (Thure von Uexküll) Client-centered therapy: active listening by C.R. Rogers

39 Fundamentals of the Narrative-Based Medicine Guided Affective Imagery (KIP: Katathymimaginative Psychotherapy) Therapy with poetry and Bibliotherapy

40 Orthodox Medicine and Naturopathy complement one another Question: On the one hand there is orthodox medicine but on the other hand there are also different treatments that are bent to be based on naturopathic methods. In your view: Are orthodox medicine and alternative treatments opposites or are they bound to complement one another? German population from the age of 16 in per cent - complementing one another - opposites - undetermined