The role of complementary and alternative medicine : accommodating pluralism
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The role of complementary and alternative medicine : accommodating pluralism
（Hastings Center studies in ethics）
Georgetown University Press, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780878408771
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From acupuncture and chiropractic treatment to homeopathy and nutritional supplements, complementary and alternative therapies are widely accepted by much of the public but frowned upon by most physicians and researchers practicing orthodox medcine. In this text, 14 scholars from the fields of medicine, philosophy, sociology and cultural and folklore studies examine the clash between growing public support and the hostility of clinicians and medical researchers. The essays fall into two major categorie: those addressing the methodological problems of assessemnt and those focusing on the differing cultural perspectives at work in a patient's choice of treatment. They suggest a variety of ways that CAM can both be taken seriously and subjected to careful scurtiny.
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At the center of the debate over complementary and alternative medicine - from acupuncture and chiropractic treatments to homeopathy and nutritional supplements - is how to scientifically measure the effectiveness of a particular treatment. Fourteen scholars from the fields of medicine, philosophy, sociology, and cultural and folklore studies examine that debate, and the clash between growing public support and the often hostile stance of clinicians and medical researchers. Proponents and critics have different methodologies and standards of evidence - raising the question of how much pluralism is acceptable in a medical context - particularly in light of differing worldviews and the struggle to define medicine in the modern world. The contributors address both the methodological problems of assessment and the conflicting cultural perspectives at work in a patient's choice of treatment. Sympathetic to CAM, the contributors nonetheless offer careful critiques of its claims, and suggest a variety of ways it can be taken seriously, yet subject to careful scrutiny.
Table of Contents
IntroductionDaniel CallahanAssessments of Efficacy in Biomedicine: The Turn toward Methodological PluralismKenneth F. ShaffnerCAM and Cultural Diversity: Ethics and Epistemology ConvergeDavid J. Hufford The Role of Science in Assessing Conventional, Complementary, and Alternative MedicinesLoretta M. KopelmanPersonal Experience, Popular Epistemology, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine ResearchBonnie B. O'ConnorThe Placebo Effect: Implications for the Study and Practice of Complementary and Alternative MedicineHoward BrodySpirituality in Clinical Care: A Brief Review of Patient Desire, Physician Response, and Research OpportunitiesDavid B. Larson and Susan B. LarsonInterpreting Results from Randomized Clinical Trials of Complementary/Alternative Interventions: The Role of Trial Quality and Pre-trial BeliefsAsbjorn Hrobjartsson and Stig BrorsonEvidence, Ethics, and the Evaluation of Global MedicineWayne B. JonasThe Nature of Evidence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ideas from Trials of Homeopathy in Chronic HeadacheTom Whitmarsh Medical Culture and CAM Culture: Science and Ritual in the Academic Medical CenterPaul Root Wolpe The Quest for Holism in MedicineAlfred I. TauberContributors Index
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