I recently read "Emotions Revealed", by Paul Ekman, I would say the greatest expert in facial emotional expressions. I followed a path of his training in the recognition of facial expressions really very interesting and useful I think. I quote here some remarks I made to read Ekman's book, based on my knowledge in medicine [...]
Filed under: Ideas and Theories , East and West , Pill of Chinese Medicine on July 2nd, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today acupuncture is an article on Repubblica.it which argues that the results of recent research (meta-analysis of scientific literature) have shown that acupuncture is "just a placebo effect." I invite you to read the article: http://www.repubblica.it/2009/01/sezioni/scienze/agopuntura/agopuntura/agopuntura.html?ref=hpspr1 The following is the comment I posted to the website of the Republic I read the comments and I guess [...]
Filed under: East and West , Various on January 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
In the field of alternative medicine there are many valid traditions, but often it is not clear that there is the link between all the disciplines of energy, because they are presented in their multiplicity: this happens often in our western world, used to analyze, separate, break up the knowledge and recognize things by their diversity. So [...]
Filed under: East and West on January 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Globalization is a process that is affecting all disciplines and that leads to a broadening of our cultural boundaries. The scientific world is subject to this inevitable change and, as the expectation is that it demonstrates an openness to the wider integration of knowledge, often it is not. This is the case, [...]
Filed under: East and West on January 10th, 2008 | No Comments »
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