But “western medicine” is just medicine that works. It happens to be western because the West had a technological head start, and so discovered most of the medicine that works first. But there’s nothing culturally western about it
That’s not true. Evidence-based medicine is deeply Western in it’s dogmas. In the Western tradition knowledge equals justified belief which isn’t the ideal of what knowledge happens to be in the the East. In the Eastern tradition a Zen master might be considered to be very knowledgeable without them justifying any of the beliefs they have to other people.
This pandemic made a mockery out of Western medicine that supposes one has to wait to have justified belief to act while Eastern countries were able to act much faster and more effectively.
In Christian theology it’s important to make rational arguments for interpretations to justify beliefs in a way that it just in Eastern religions.
Non-reliance on subjective perception of experts is another key feature of Western medicine.
Coca-Cola is a drink that optimizes specific contrains. It would be easy to use sirup to get a drink that tastes like Coca-Cola and is cheaper when people want to drink cola. What Coca-Cola brings is a brand that gurantees that you are getting the same cola everywhere and the need for that quality instead of having a drink like Mango-latte that tastes differently depending on where you get it is a Western value.
This pandemic made a mockery out of Western medicine that supposes one has to wait to have justified belief to act while Eastern countries were able to act much faster and more effectively.
I don’t think the handling of the pandemics has anything to do with Western/Eastern medicine. Some of the countries that most successfully fought against it are western (I am thinking of Australia and New Zealand, despite the recent outbreak in Sydney).
Australia and New Zealand fought the pandemic by preventing incoming travel.
Simply using the first testing methods they come up with instead of waiting for justification for the tests was key for why countries like South Korea and Vietnam did a lot of testing very early.
That’s not true. Evidence-based medicine is deeply Western in it’s dogmas. In the Western tradition knowledge equals justified belief which isn’t the ideal of what knowledge happens to be in the the East. In the Eastern tradition a Zen master might be considered to be very knowledgeable without them justifying any of the beliefs they have to other people.
This pandemic made a mockery out of Western medicine that supposes one has to wait to have justified belief to act while Eastern countries were able to act much faster and more effectively.
In Christian theology it’s important to make rational arguments for interpretations to justify beliefs in a way that it just in Eastern religions.
Non-reliance on subjective perception of experts is another key feature of Western medicine.
Coca-Cola is a drink that optimizes specific contrains. It would be easy to use sirup to get a drink that tastes like Coca-Cola and is cheaper when people want to drink cola. What Coca-Cola brings is a brand that gurantees that you are getting the same cola everywhere and the need for that quality instead of having a drink like Mango-latte that tastes differently depending on where you get it is a Western value.
I don’t think the handling of the pandemics has anything to do with Western/Eastern medicine. Some of the countries that most successfully fought against it are western (I am thinking of Australia and New Zealand, despite the recent outbreak in Sydney).
Australia and New Zealand fought the pandemic by preventing incoming travel.
Simply using the first testing methods they come up with instead of waiting for justification for the tests was key for why countries like South Korea and Vietnam did a lot of testing very early.