Contemporary approaches to understanding health, disease and its treatment differ largely from the traditional way of treating people's health conditions. For example, before the “Age of Reason,” beliefs about vengeful spirits, evil and divine intervention, and practices of witchcraft and witchcraft were widely held (Porter 1997 as cited in Williams, 2003). Another example is the practice of Greek medicine; a more naturalistic approach used by the professional to tune the body through humoral theories of balance and lifestyle modification. Likewise, during this age, the combination of physical, emotional and spiritual factors contributed to the development of the “sick man” (Williams, 2003). These medical teachings were authoritative until the 18th century. However, towards the nineteenth century, numerous discoveries such as Vesalius' anatomical atlas and Harvey's blood circulation process challenged traditional medicine, paving the way for the emergence of a newer and more systematic form of medicine (Williams, 2003, p . 11). , marking the growth and supremacy of scientific medicine. The evolution of scientific medicine is well documented in several publications (Gabe, Keheller & Williams, 1994; Longino, 1998; Marcum, 2008; Morris, 2000; Quirke & Gaudilliere, 2008; Williams, 2003). There has been a progressive shift from the preference of licensed or unauthorized healers to the legitimation of the medical profession and the medicalization of natural life experiences (Gabe, et al., 1994). With this, scientific medicine, commonly known as biomedicine, has continued to dominate the discourse on health and disease from the late 18th century to the present (Williams, 2003). Despite this perceived supremacy, scientific medicine... at the center of the article... of this experiment Apply? The Lancet, 365(9453), 82-93. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17670-8Thorpe, R.D. (2008). Integrating biomedical approaches and CAM: The experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS. Health Sociology Review, 17(4), 410-418. Tonelli, M. R., & Callahan, T. C. (2001). Because alternative medicine cannot be evidence-based. Academic Medicine, 76(12), 1213-1220. Torgerson, D. J. (2003). Avoiding bias in randomized controlled trials in educational research. British Journal of Educational Studies, 51(1), 36-45.Williams, S. J. (2003). Medicine and body. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Xue, C. C. L., Zhang, A. L., Lin, V., Costa, C. D., & Story, D. F. (2007). Complementary and alternative medicine use in Australia: a national population-based survey. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 13(6), 643-650. doi: 10.1089/acm.2006.6355.