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The Paradigm Shift from Mechanical Medicine to Holistic Health,
America's Healing Journey

Mat Stowell
March 4, 2007

We are at last seeing transformation, a paradigm shift from mechanical medicine to a unified, proactive approach to holistic health and well being. In the nineteenth century when Rene Descarte, the French philosopher, contributed his theory of the separation of mind and body and the French invented diagnostic tools such as the stethoscope, medicine became increasingly mechanical.Diagnosis and treatments were decided by analysis of the patient's symptoms as the primary means of determining a patient's condition.Specialization of medical care was encouraged across the board to increase profitability..

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