Traditional Care 

         As baby boomers age and start moving into the segment of the population with chronic dis-ease , society’s health-care needs will escalate dramatically. Who will meet the current and future health-care needs of the population?

Integrative Care

     The current trend of health-care seekers is to opt for care provided by integrative practitioners or complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) defines integrative therapies as those treatments, separate from traditional & conventional medicine, for which there is some scientific evidence of safety and basis for usages will escalate. Who will met the  future health-care needs of the population? Traditional health-care is not staffed to care for current population and  an aging population.

The National Women’s History Project (NWHP) has chosen Women’s Art:Women’s Visions as the theme for March 2008 National Women’s History Month. In keeping with the theme of NWHP, I honor the multiple dimensions of women’s lives by presenting Edmonia Lewis (1843 or 1845-?).

Edmonia Lewis is the first Native American and African American sculptress. When she was an Oberlin college student she was brutally beaten by vigilantes after two students, with whom she boarded, accused her of poisoning them. Because of insufficient evidence she was exonerated. Lewis later moved to Boston where she became known as a ’sculptress’ and artist. Thereafter, she was advised to go to England, but Lewis decided to settle in Rome after visiting London, Paris and Florence. Lewis’s career in Rome was a good fit with other American women artists. She was last seen in Rome about 1911. Her date and place of death are unknown.