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Naturopathic Medicine
HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
Whatever we keep on doing to keep naturopathic medicine robust and relevant, every plan along the way must be informed by what Socrates once called “these several actions with the whole soul”. Specifically, and if we know our history, the “whole soul” of naturopathic medicine cannot be as easily slammed by the reductionist approach to medicine which conveniently forgets and forgives bloodletting and calomel in the same breath as it enables an opioid pandemic.
The at once highly complex and beautifully simple principles of the medicine which this TIMELINE
shows, manifesting as they have over many, many years, help keep our path forward clearer, more certain and ultimately sustainable. These pages document in delicious detail how the three key elements in professional formation persist: the establishing and accreditation of our educational preparation for practice; the recognition of our graduates by civil authority; and the codifying of our knowledge, secure in its derivation and invariably stronger going forward in its historical and current relevance and application.
DAVID J. SCHLEICH, PHD PRESIDENT, NUNM
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