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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
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Keisetsu Otsuka
1900 – 1980Revived Kampo in Japan and secured its place inside the national health insurance system.
Japan·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Medicine
Yoshio Manaka
1911 – 1989Surgeon-acupuncturist who built a biophysical model of meridian therapy.
Japan·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Medicine
Michio Kushi
1926 – 2014Carried macrobiotics from postwar Japan to the West and into the diet-and-disease debate.
Japan·Nutrition · Integrative Medicine
Shinya Yamanaka
b. 1962Reprogrammed adult cells into stem cells, remaking regenerative medicine.
Japan·Medicine · BiologyNobel