Background
Unlike other major health systems, such as Ayurvedic or Traditional
Chinese Medicine, Western biomedicine has not generally included
a spiritual component in either its explanation of health
and disease processes or in its treatments.
As you saw in "History," Western medicine was holistic
in the Greek tradition until the Renaissance. But after the
Renaissance, the spirit or soul became the domain of the church
and the body the domain of medicine.
The gulf between the two domains widened with the development
of allopathic biomedicine medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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