POSTMODERN  MEDICINE

Farzad Goli
POB: 81465/767. Isfahan, Iran

    We live in a world, which all different  layers of history and culture has been gotten to gather
in a way that the liner time of modernity has been broken, but postmodern episteme has not been established yet. This ambivalent discourse is the root of various attitudes towards contemporary medicine.
    In recent decades the tendency in traditional medicine has made different opinions. Some doctors believe that this tendency  is the main stream in history of medicine, others say that this is a pseudostream, which is originated from economical and scientifical poverty, and need to gain identity in some developing societies or is assumed as a insignificant event.

    While Cartesian attitude in medicine has lost its exclusive authority like other sciences, the meaning of unconsciousness in psychoanalysis has extended to other parts of knowledge, and
illogical and intuitive aspects of cognition, are under consideration.

    In medicine this condition has been formed as a tending to holistic, analogic and traditional approach. 

    Dialogue of modern and traditional episteme in the domain of medicine has taken different ways. In this article we will discuss two main methodology.
    In the first methodology, intuitive and analogic hypothesis which have been experienced in traditional medicine, are being used in modern medicine after been evaluated scientifically. This attitude uses the traditional analyzed facts as "Complementary medicine".

   The second methodology has a traditional aspect and proposes practicing medicine in a holistic way. This path moves in parallel with modern medicine and is named "Alternative medicine". 

   The two terms of "Complementary medicine" and "Alternative medicine" usually are thought to be the same but regarding their meanings, they are introducing  different approaches in modern and traditional medicine.

    In this article we will talk about feasibility of health services which can meet the needs of human,  and using analytic, experimental and intuitive sources of knowledge, effectively.