When Listening to the People: Lessons from Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for Bioethics

Autor:	Monika Clark-Grill
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) business.industry Health Policy Medical law Bioethics Scientific evidence Empirical research Family medicine Health care Sociology of health and illness Medicine Engineering ethics business Medical ethics Biomedicine
Zdroj:	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 7:71-81
ISSN:	1872-4353 1176-7529
DOI:	10.1007/s11673-010-9218-6
Popis:	Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) have become increasingly popular over recent decades. Within bioethics CAM has so far mostly stimulated discussions around their level of scientific evidence, or along the standard concerns of bioethics. To gain an understanding as to why CAM is so successful and what the CAM success means for health care ethics, this paper explores empirical research studies on users of CAM and the reasons for their choice. It emerges that there is a close connection to fundamental principles of medical ethics. The studies also highlight that CAM’s holistic ontology of health and illness has an empowering effect on people in caring for their health, and on an even deeper level, safeguards against biomedicine’s reducing image of oneself as biological body-machine. The question is raised what lessons bioethics should draw from this emancipatory social movement for its own relationship with biomedicine.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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