With the consideration of biomedicine as a "mainstream" health care approach, people regard various traditional and indigenous healing ideas and practices as alternative healing. When we look at the emergence and and expansion of biomedicine, its pervasive presence appears simply as a recent historical phenomenon. Against this backdrop, the following two questions may emerge as a pertinent initial to engage in this discourse-
-is biomedicine a dominant healing practice these days everywhere?
- Is there any social and political setting where biomedicine can be regarded as an alternative healing?
Biomedicine may be structurally dominant, but traditional/indigenous healing is functionally pervasive in most countries of our planet.
In Africa and other less economically developed areas, biomedicine is viewed as alternative.
Edwards, can you please share little more on this, literature or your observation/experience?
Many years' experience and study of and work with both traditional and modern medicine and practitioners inform my answers. See attached CV and publication examples.
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