Lecture: Bio-Medicine and Alternative Medicine – From a Modernistic Paradigm to a Postmodernistic Paradigm

This study compares the conventional bio-medicine’s worldview with the one of complementary/alternative medicine, indicating the parallel lines between those worldviews to modernism and postmodernism (respectively).
The studt identifies a new and innovative group of therapy, with a logic yet to exist – neiter in the modern nor the traditional world (thus we also present a comparative reference to traditional, pre-modern, therapy).
The comparison’s focus is the issue of language’s role in the therapeutic process.
The novel worldview isn’t caracteristic to every new or alternative therapy, thus I named this innovative group of therapy methods “the new alternative medicine”.
The lecture was delivered at the 5th annual conference of the Israeli Society for the History and Philosophy of Sceince, held at Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, on 16th-17th March 2005, within a session on “bio-medicine in the 20th century: from the lab to the public sphere”.
A somewhat similar article is published in Hebrew, see links below.