| Description |
x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Hastings Center studies in ethics |
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Hastings Center studies in ethics.
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| Contents |
DANIEL CALLAHAN -- Introduction vii -- KENNETH F. SCHAFFNER -- Assessments of Efficacy in Biomedicine: The Turn toward Methodological Pluralism 1 -- DAVID J. HUFFORD -- CAM and Cultural Diversity: Ethics and Epistemology Converge 15 -- LORETTA M. KOPELMAN -- The Role of Science in Assessing Conventional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicines 36 -- BONNIE B. O'CONNOR -- Personal Experience, Popular Epistemology, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research 54 -- HOWARD BRODY -- The Placebo Effect: Implicationsfor the Study and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine 74 -- DAVID B. LARSON AND SUSAN S. LARSON -- Spirituality in Clinical Care: A Brief Review of Patient Desire, Physician Response, and Research Opportunities 84 -- ASBJORN HROBJARTSSON AND STIG BRORSON -- Interpreting Results from Randomized Clinical Trials of Complementary/Alternative Interventions: The Role of Trial Quality and Pre-trial Beliefs 107 -- WAYNE B. JONAS -- Evidence, Ethics, and the Evaluation of Global Medicine 122 -- TOM WHITMARSH -- The Nature of Evidence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ideas from Trials of Homeopathy in Chronic Headache 148 -- PAUL ROOT WOLPE -- Medical Culture and CAM Culture: Science and Ritual in the Academic Medical Center 163 -- ALFRED I. TAUBER -- The Quest for Holism in Medicine 172 -- Contributors 190 -- Index 196-214 |
| Summary |
"In The Role of Complementary & Alternative Medicine, fourteen 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Alternative medicine.
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| Author |
Callahan, Daniel, 1930-
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| LC no. |
2001040797 |
| ISBN |
0878408770 (alkaline paper) |
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1589010167 (paperback) |
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