Month: March 2025

Healing System – A structured approach to healthcare within a cultural or medical tradition, including beliefs, practitioners, and treatment methods.

Holistic Medicine – A medical system that treats the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—rather than just the disease.

Integrative Medicine – A healthcare approach that combines conventional biomedicine with alternative and traditional healing practices.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) – Medical practices that fall outside conventional Western medicine, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, and naturopathy.

Ethnomedicine – The study of traditional and indigenous medical practices based on cultural knowledge and beliefs.

Biomedicine – A Western scientific approach to medicine focused on biological causes and medical interventions.

Medical Pluralism – The coexistence of multiple healthcare systems within a society, such as biomedicine, traditional healing, and alternative medicine.

Emerging Infectious Diseases – Newly identified or re-emerging diseases that pose significant health threats (e.g., Ebola, SARS).

Biocultural Approach to Disease – A perspective that examines how biology and culture interact to shape health and disease patterns.