### science | medicine:

Traditional medicine
* Most traditional medicine includes meat
  - snake meat
  - uses techniques
* Some traditional medicine is used by american tribes
  - indian tribes
  - many american indian tribes
  - many tribes
* accepts the limitation and finitude of the human condition.
* are mixed, dosed, and prepared according to individual patient needs.
* benumbs the ability to observe.
* consists of herbal, root and animal remedies and consulting a medicine man.
* has a long history in Vietnam and China
  - always been used to treat asthma- fish medicine is one such medicine
* holistic treatment that seeks to heal the body, mind and soul.
* includes herbs, acupuncture, and massage
* is based on the scientific method
  - crucial to the region's health care
  - extremely popular in Thailand
  - practiced by indigenous people
  - the accumulation of millennia
* looks to suppress or mask symptoms.
* portrays the cancer victim as one who generally feels, hopeless and helpless.
* relies heavily on the health giving qualities of forest plants.
* takes the entire person into account, both in diagnosis and treatment.
* tends to support a body-mind duality paradigm.
* uses antibiotics but there are far more effective natural approaches

Transfusion medicine
* is an expanding subspecialty that continues to be reshaped and redefined.
* rapidly growing field with many applications.

Travel medicine
* deals with the special health needs of international travelers.
* focuses upon preventing health problems before they occur.
* is the second field of activitiy.

Various medicine
* are effective in the treatment of bipolar disorder.
* can help relieve an isolated bout of sinusitis.

### science | medicine:

Veterinary medicine
* contributes daily to critical advances in both animal and human health.
* domain in which acupuncture and homeopathy are practiced.
* great field because it encompasses so many different areas.
* has an important place in food safety.
* involves animal care and research.
* is as scientific as human medicine
  - responsible for protecting the health and welfare of both animals and humans
  - very similar to human medicine
* noble profession.
* plays a critical role in food safety.
* provides career opportunities equally good for women as for men.
* rapidly advancing scientific field.
* service business.
* significant and special way to work.
* uses the same chemotherapy drugs used in human oncology.

Vibrational medicine
* contain such high-frequency subtle energies.
* looks upon the body as a human energy field.
* recognizes the subtle vibrational patterns of nature, human and plant.

### science | medicine:

Virology
* Find information about viruses, virology, microbiology and infectious disease.
* Learn about viral morphology and taxonomy.
* Virologies are medicine.
* identifies viruses in specimens of blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid.
* includes studying both the biology and the epidemiology of viruses.
* is considered to be a subfield of microbiology or of medicine
* is one application of genomics techniques
  - of the important fields of molecular biology
+ Medical microbiology, Fields in medical microbiology: Microbiology :: Medicine