Las espirales del conocimiento. La medicina científica occidental, la medicina homeopática y la medicina tradicional china

Following the ideas written by H. Skolimowski (The participatory mind: a new theory of knowledge and of the Universe) about how we acquire knowledge and how we construct what he calls “the spiral of knowledge”, I performed a review of the medical knowledge and how his peculiar spiral of knowledge has been constructed. I focused on the comparison of three medical traditions: western medicine – the so called scientific medicine -, Chinese traditional medicine, and homeopathic medicine. A description is resented of what are considered the fundamental characteristics of their particular spiral of knowledge, starting from the description of their own ontology and epistemology, on which they are based.