Clear cell sarcoma of the kidney: a renal tumor of childhood that metastasizes to bone.
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Bone Neoplasms↗
Biomedical subjects
M M Lock
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Man as machine and man as microcosm: a comparison of western and traditional Japanese approaches to patient care.
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History, Ancient↗
An examination of the influence of traditional therapeutic systems on the practice of cosmopolitan medicine in Japan.
The Japanese health care system is frequently criticized within Japan for the over-prescription of medication. This problem is analyzed by examining the modern medical system as a cultural construct. Attitudes towards medication derived from the traditional East Asian medical system are delineated and their reinforcement through other cultural institutions is discussed. The implications of the persistence of these attitudes for contemporary medical practice is presented.
Attitude to Health↗
Scars of experience: the art of moxibustion in Japanese medicine and society.
Beliefs and practices surrounding moxibustion, a cautery technique used in Japan, are analyzed to demonstrate that the concept of holism is culture-bound and that the practice of East Asian medicine is often reductionistic. Pluralistic traditional medical belief systems of historical and contemporary Japan are discussed with reference to moxibustion. Moxa is used in popular family medicine, for ritual purification, as a technique to cure disease or as part of a holistic approach to healing; its symbolic meaning changes according to its usage and it serves to unite disparate medical beliefs. Socialization practices concerning attitudes towards illness reflect pluralistic values derived from traditional medical systems. One dominant set of values encourages patient and family responsibility during the healing process, adaptation to psychosocial relationships regarded as causal in disease occurrence and avoidance of verbal analysis of problems. These concepts, fundamental to East Asian medicine, cannot be readily adapted in the West as part of a holistic approach to health care.
Attitude to Health↗