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New York Times: acupunctuur moet!
| New York Times: acupunctuur moet! |
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In de New York Tines van 23 oktober 2009 een pleidooi voor holistische geneeskunde, en het toevoegen van acupunctuur aan het hedendaagse therapeutische arsenaal van dokters. Waar in Nederland de Kackadorisnominatie aan ziekenhuisdirecteuren die acupunctuur steunen wordt verleend, wordt in de VS juist de aandacht gevestigd op de positieve bijdrage van acupunctuur aan de gezondheidszorg. In een toonaangevend artikel met als titel " An Economy in Need of Holistic Medicine" schrijft ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, de auteur van het stuk, het volgende:
....politicians, and not just in the United States, are rarely willing to invest in a problem that hasn’t occurred. Consensus and action are easier to come by after a 9/11 or a Lehman Brothers than before. Problems in the embryonic, soluble phase don’t interest us; and those that do interest us are often too big to solve. Which is where acupuncture comes in. Western medical practices have attracted similar criticisms in recent years, for an emphasis on intervening in disease rather than preventing it beforehand and promoting quotidian well-being. But in health, unlike politics, an alternative approach called wellness has emerged, focused on investing in health before it breaks down. De auteur stelt vervolgens dat zowel de economie als de geneeskunde alleen brandjes blussen, en dus alleen ingesteld zijn op symptoombestrijding:
Go to the roots!
Western medicine tends to fight symptoms, whether suppressing coughs or flooding the brains of the depressed with serotonin. Wellness is interested in underlying causes. It is inclined to see an infertile woman, for example, as a stressed woman rather than a woman with defunct ovaries, and may suggest that she eat and work differently rather than take ovary-manipulating pills.
En vervolgens wordt de analogie verder uitgewerkt:
“We treat symptoms, and we do not look at the causes of the symptoms,” Deepak Chopra, the famed alternative-medicine and wellness guru, said when asked to extend the wellness metaphor to the economy. “We are totally at this moment looking at it in a reductionist manner. The reductionist manner is a bailout. And somehow that’s supposed to solve the problem, whereas the problem occurred because we were thinking reductively.”
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