The Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information Source Book

The Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information Source Book

During the past decade, American doctors and patients have increasingly come to rely on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Still, this highly heterogeneous collection of therapies remains unfamiliar to many people. Consumers, medical librarians and professional health researchers have a pressing need for reliable and authoritative information they can consult before making important ...

The health system approach to the complementary and alternative medicine

Since different nations have emphasized reusing their traditional methods in medicine over the last two decades, and the World Health Organization’s recent approach has also focused on restoring traditional medicine in different parts of the world, those methods that are more compatible with the popular culture of a country should be considered. In our country, the traditional medicine, with it...

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Status of Traditional Medicine/Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The popularity and acceptance of Traditional/Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) in the treatment of various ailments has persisted over the millennia. The formulations are so made as to minimize the untoward effects and enhance synergism, thereby increasing the efficacy of the preparation as a whole. The idea was perhaps based on the logic of humoral concept and study of temperaments...

Medicalization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a Historical-Critical Analysis

Medicalization, in the sense of expansion of medicine in different aspects of human life and ultimately the transformation of medicine into a tool of social control and domination, is a common interpenetration in the literature. This concept, since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, has been an exclusive critique of modern medicine, meaning that branch of medicine based on biomedical p...