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Peak Antibiotics - 15 Aug 2010
Probably more than anything else, the discovery of antibiotics heralded the age of modern medicine, enabling the eradication of heretofore deadly diseases. Coinciding as it did with the rise of oil use and oil-dependent technologies, and the industrial-technological-scientific-futurist mindset, it seemed to mark a permanent change in the way diseases were treated.
But the pendulum [...]
The Broken System of Modern Industrial Health Care - 04 Jun 2010
Good essay over at Of Two Minds, titled, “What Is Good Medicine?” by Michael Horowitz.
One of my finest teachers taught me that the most important tool at a physician’s disposal for diagnosis and treatment was their relationship with the patient. This began as a sort of slogan for me but in time I understood the [...]
Read Full Post »Cultural Fitness - 24 Jun 2009
Fitness is defined in evolutionary biology as the “fit” between organism and environment, and is ostensibly about the physical body, physical health, and the organism’s ability to survive physically in the natural environment. But modern humans no longer have to adapt their bodies to survive physically in the natural environment; instead, they adapt the [...]
Read Full Post »The Narrow Frame of Modern Athletics - 14 Aug 2008
The Beijing Olympics are in full swing, and Michael Phelps is getting a lot of hype as the greatest Olympian ever, i.e. having won the most career gold medals, as well as shattering a lot of world records for speed. Seeing the attention paid to Olympic sports and herculean athletic feats, and to Tiger [...]
Read Full Post »Body Beyond Civilization, Part 1: The Modern Body - 23 Jul 2008
Welcome to our new contributing author, Pathfinder. See a short bio of Pathfinder on the About page.
Being a modern alternative medicine practitioner in modern day America, one of the biggest challenges you face is that ultimately what is at the root of what is wrong with almost all of your patients is that they [...]
Anarcho-Herbalism - 26 Mar 2008
This essay has been floating around for awhile, but it seems very apropos to this blog so I think it’s appropriate to repost it here.
This is Anarcho-Herbalism
Thoughts On Health and Healing For the Revolution
by Laurel Luddite (used by permission of the author)
My medicine chest is a council of bioregions, with representatives gathered together as I [...]