Japan's healthcare system as an interweaving of three parts
The healthcare system in today's Japan is a complex interweaving of three very diverse components. The first of them is the kanpo traditional medicine, which underwent significant modernization and was borrowed from China fifteen hundred years ago. An important place in the ideas of the Japanese is also the belief in the healing abilities of numerous deities of the two main religions of the country (note that the majority of Japanese profess two religions at once). Finally, in Japan, as in other countries, modern methods of treatment, collectively referred to by the author as biomedicine, have become widespread. Japanese doctors first became familiar with European medicine about 200 years ago, when the country began secretly distributing a Dutch translation of the famous German anatomical atlas.
These three very different components of the Japanese healthcare system form a very complex structure, which is scrupulously analyzed by the author. The reader will learn a lot about the inhabitants of the "Land of the Rising Sun", who are by no means just "hardworking ants" who unquestioningly obey their employers, as the American media often portray them. So, we learn that the Japanese take hygiene and disease prevention extremely seriously. They like to talk about their health, especially about congenital or chronic diseases. "This is my native disease," one often hears from a Japanese. Eighty percent of the housewives interviewed by the author said that they suffer from some kind of chronic illness.
If a patient has an incurable disease, such as cancer, they are never told about it. This rule is followed by both doctors and relatives: when it is no longer possible to help a patient, they try their best to hide from him the inevitability of the approaching end. However, along with this, as is well known, Japanese traditions not only justify suicide, but also assume a certain ethical meaning in this. The tragic end does not detract from the suicide's human dignity; on the contrary, it gives him the opportunity to gain a moral victory over death itself, even if not as a person, but as a cultural bearer.
One thing is certain: there is a deep contradiction between the statistical nature of scientific medicine and the uniqueness of the human personality. Even the most advanced forecasting in biomedicine will be probabilistic, and a patient with a low chance of recovery will inevitably turn to folk remedies or magic for help. Until remedies as reliable as the Jenner vaccine are found, curing any disease and defeating even old age and death, the reasons that force people to turn to irrational forces will not disappear.
Hosobin, the god of smallpox, may have to change his "specialization" more than once, but the flow of people coming to him for healing will not dry up soon. And although this god is worshipped only in Japan, prejudice exists everywhere. The time when superstitions related to medicine will finally disappear has not yet come. Actuellement, Melbet ne propose pas de bonus sans dépôt en Afrique. Avec le
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