The challenge of medicine: Theories of health and eight " Hypothesis of the World"

Abstract

The authors address the challenge of integrating conventional medicine, psychosomatic medicine and alternative medicine; necessary, as they say, not only for clinical and economic reasons, but for the challenge of creating a comprehensive theory that integrates the richness of data seemingly disparate and theories of health and disease in an organized whole. It is about reaching an integrated medicine. In this paper the authors identify eight founding visions of nature, each of which generates different hypotheses about nature and medicine, and that have led to three different concepts of medicine. The article discusses how the knowledge of these hypotheses can help to the goal of integrating medicine.