title: Energy medicine and the unifying concept of information.
abstract: Alternative medicine remains alternative because it poses serious challenges to the mainstream biomedical paradigm of mechanical reductionism and because it requires a new framework. This paper explores some of the hypotheses and challenges of energy medicine including healer interventions, electromagnetic therapies, and homeopathy. Together with new findings from the bioelectromagnetic field, they spell out the rudiments of a new paradigm for biology and medicine based on information. Information embraces the complex network of relations in the matter and energy transactions of living systems. It offers a unified view of energy medicine modalities as well as a fresh perspective for biology and medicine and new questions for further research.
authors.affiliation: Center for Frontier Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rubik
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies; D006296:Health Services / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services