This chapter begins within the context of advocacy for integrative approaches, followed by a review of the global health status. The diversity of challenges in different parts of the world gives few glimpses of the seriousness and magnitude of the health care crisis. The authors discuss the evolution of health care systems, with medical care as a component, and suggest that the present focus is more on treatment of diseases than on health protection. Despite spectacular advances in biomedical sciences, the developing world has not been able to eliminate age-old diseases; in the developed world, newer diseases attributable to lifestyles have sprung up. These unresolved challenges call for a close look at today’s health care solutions, and new, imaginative approaches in health and medicine. In exploring their complementary roles in health care, we survey important advancements in biomedical sciences, and basic concepts from Ayurveda and Yoga. The authors suggest a possible meeting ground for the integration of diverse systems such as Ayurveda, Yoga, and other traditional and complementary medicines (T&CM), with modern medicine. Issues related to medical pluralism, and definitions of T&CM practices are discussed to indicate possible meeting grounds. Discussed in this chapter are the rationales, and constructs of integrative approaches, and their relevance and importance to learning, in light of biomedical sciences, Ayurveda, and Yoga. While making the advocacy, authors do not take any sides—be it modern medicine, Ayurveda, or Yoga but try to strike a balance between the two seemingly diverse yet complementary philosophies.
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