The Faces of Medicine

If medicine is the science of life in the sense of caring for life, the simple act of trying to understand it, to shape it into an object of research and consciousness, would deprive it of its vital spark. Subsequently, locked into a game of rationality, the question of an epistemology of this science arises: medicine, when submitted to reason, loses its essence. This is an intellectual bias which is avoided by the position of traditional medicines in their cosmogonist vision of nature, of the being, of death and life. Adapted from the source document.