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Integrative Medicine – Exploring a New System Methodology

Report delivered at the International Conference on Integrative Medicine – the Future? March 2007 London

by Professor Man Fong Mei （梅万方教授）

Abstract

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Medicine is facing an era of transformation. Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is being challenged by the revival of traditional medicines such as Chinese medicine and Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) from a holistic natural stand point. The proposal of an integrative medicine must begin by innovating a creditable theoretical methodology to guide its clinical practice. This inquiry looks at the logic of cognition, a progression from evidence, scientism and the holistic metaphysics of medicine to a truer, more coherent methodology. Exploring this progress in terms of the dialectical logic of synthesis, this paper proposes the theoretical advancement of a Dialectical Based Medicine (DBM). Syllogism in Hegel’s science of logic may provide us with a cognitive logic for integrative medical research that incorporates both the changing complexity of physical manifestations and psycho-emotional, social and environmental factors in human health and disease.

The progressivism of DBM in terms of future medical research contents and global perspective of medicine are also considered in this report.

Keywords:

Medical Methodology; Integrative Medicine; Dialectical Based Medicine (DBM); Evidence Based Medicine (EBM); Traditional Holistic Medicine; Hegelian Dialectics; Progressivism; Analytic Cognition; Synthetic Cognition; Syllogism; Medical Research; Clinical Practice; Scientism; Metaphysics.

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