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Advent of a Link between Ayurveda and Modern Health Science: The Proceedings of the First International Congress on Ayurveda, “Ayurveda: The Meaning of Life—Awareness, Environment, and Health” March 21‐22, 2009, Milan, Italy

The First International Congress on Ayurveda was held in Milan, Italy in March 2009 and it has been the first scientific event of this kind in western world. This groundbreaking international congress was devoted to human being as the product of interactions between Awareness, Environment and Health, subjects that the West tends to consider separate and independent, but that are believed deeply connected in Ayurveda, whose interdependence defines “The Meaning of Life”. The Congress established a bridge between indian and western philosophy, scientific and biomedical thinking in order to expand knowledge and healthcare. Main attention and address of the invited speakers was on the concept of “relationships” that, connecting living beings with environment, shape Nature itself. This concept is central in Ayurveda but is also common to other western scientific disciplines such as quantum physics and epigenetics that, in the four Sessions of the Congress, were represented by eminent experts. The importance of this event was underlined by the attendance of more than 400 participants and by noteworthy institutional endorsements, that added a significative political dimension of high social impact due to the topical period for CAM acceptance and integration in Europe.

Curing or Caring? Theological Comments on Healing

This article argues that the optimistic modern notion of perfect curing through rational scientific means as the aim of modern health sciences, as well as the postmodern notion of complete curing from suffering, tragedy and aporia through non-rational measures such as various forms of spiritual healing and exorcism, are inadequate models of healing. The article proposes the notion of caring as a more promising approach to healing. Caring entails being present with those in sickness, suffering and alienation, re-presenting God and the body of Christ to suffering people, and seeking justice for the downtrodden and wronged through an ethic of solidarity and risk. This protesting presence with suffering people as expression of caring in the midst of tragedy and aporia paves the way for penultimate experiences of curing.

The Scientific Value of Ayurveda

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary MedicineVol. 11, No. 2 Guest Editorial/CommentaryThe Scientific Value of AyurvedaAlex HankeyAlex HankeySearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:2 May 2005https://doi.org/10.1089/acm.2005.11.221AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byAyurvedic Research and Methodology: Present Status and Future Strategies17 June 2022 | International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and TechnologyPerformance Evaluation of Dabur India Ltd through Profitability Ratio Analysis: A Case Study16 May 2022 | International Journal of Case Studies in Business, IT, and EducationExploring AyuGenomics approach for understanding COVID-19 predisposition and progressionJournal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Vol. 13, No. 1Chemical Space, Scaffolds, and Halogenated Compounds of 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THE LAW'S DEFECTIVE PREMISE

The laws that could culminate in criminal liability for the proper administration of euthanasia to a severely defective child share one common and basic premise with much of early medical practice in America and with dogmatically held popular beliefs against all euthanasia. This premise antedates and is made obsolete by the rise of modern health sciences and medical technology. The defective premise is that life, whatever its form, nature, or content, is necessarily and always a good, and that death, on any event that hastens death, is always and necessarily an evil and should be illegal. Law has a felt obligation to protect life to the fullest for each individual and seeks to assure each person's right to live out his life until its natural and inevitable end, which is legally defined as "cessation," meaning a total stoppage of the circulation of the blood and a cessation of all the animal and vital functions resting on blood circulation, such as pulse, respiration, etc. The problem is that, as commendatory as the law is in this regard, the law's basic premise applies only to the usual and ordinary person and was created with him in mind.... [T] his commonly shared premise is false. There simply is no plain, straightforward, and necessary connection between all human life itself, in each and every instance, whatever its character, and its always being a good.