Moving Lines and Variable Criteria: Differences/Connections between Allopathic and Alternative Medicine
| Autor: | Fred M. Frohock |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Modern medicine Sociology and Political Science Traditional medicine business.industry 05 social sciences Alternative medicine General Social Sciences Identity (social science) Context (language use) 0506 political science Epistemology Variable (computer science) 0502 economics and business Health care 050602 political science & public administration medicine Natural (music) Narrative 050207 economics business |
| Zdroj: | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 583:214-232 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3349 0002-7162 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/000271620258300114 |
| Popis: | The standard narratives of medicine recognize its origins in natural cures and in religious or spiritual discourses. The uneasy relationships of such practices (now designated as complementary or alternative medicine [CAM]) to conventional health care today can be tracked to the formation of medicine as a distinct profession based on modern science. The author accepts four statements as a framework for exploring CAM in the context of modern medicine. The first is that all versions of unconventional medicine depend for their identity on the existence of conventional medicine. The second is that the distinctions between alternative and conventional medicine are variables of time, place, and the attitudes of health care practitioners. Third, CAM today in the West occupies no sharp and distinctive category. There are instead continuums of various slopes and lengths on which types of complementary and alternative medicine are arrayed. Fourth, the turn to CAM may represent a chronic (and, to some, welcome) inclination of the human intellect to delimit the energies of material inquiries with metaphysical baselines and options. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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