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Researching alternative medicine

Nature Medicine, 1997
In 1992 the US Congress created the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM), placing it within the NIH, one of the foremost bio-medical research establishments world-wide. The OAM is currently funded to the tune of $40 million per year. Although alternative and unconventional medicine attracts considerable attention (and finances) from the public in ...
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Alternative Sports Medicine

The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1998
Many active patients and athletes use alternative medical therapies when conventional medicine fails to relieve their musculoskeletal symptoms. Research is expanding, and medical organizations and schools, insurers, and physicians are exploring the efficacy of these alternatives.
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Medicine 0–Alternative medicine 1

Practical Neurology, 2012
If thou couldst, doctor, cast the water of my land, find her disease, and purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again. William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Macbeth IV: 46–50. An unorthodox doctor once taught me a memorable lesson. The patient was a well-educated married woman who had spent much
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Concepts in alternative medicine

Social Science & Medicine, 1986
After discussing some important alternative approaches, different interpretations are presented of the concepts of health, disease, diagnosis, therapy and patient. These differences are elucidated in three main frames of medical thinking: the pharmaceutical, the integrational and the holistic model. Attention is given to the problem of scientific proof,
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Alternative Medicine

Asia-Pacific Biotech News, 2002
Anti-cancer Compound Found in Malaysia's Aphrodisiac Plant. Stronger Anti-cancer Substance Found in Herbal Medicine.
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Alternative Medicine or Alternatives to Medicine? A Physician's Perspective

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2000
Regina R. is a 12-year-old girl with recently diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetes. Before discharging her from the hospital, her family physician and consulting diabetes specialist try to instruct the girl and her parents in the appropriate program of treatment, including diet, insulin, and regular self-monitoring.
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Alternative therapeutic modalities. Alternative medicine

1996
Commonly known as Alternative Medicine (AM) in the current literature, treatment of diseases by approaches other than those of allopathic or conventional medicine has feverishly caught on in the United States of America (USA) during the current decade. Public and political pressures on the government to address the escalating costs of health care under
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Alternative medicine

Medical Journal of Australia, 1985
M L, Wahlqvist, A C, Clark, R F, Moulds, G L, Metz, J R, Sullivan, J M, Court, G O, Littlejohn   +6 more
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Alternative Medicine, Alternative Cosmology

1988
In 1963, Michel Foucault concluded The Birth of the Clinic: In the last years of the eighteenth century, European culture outlined a structure that has not yet been unraveled [sic]; we are only just beginning to disentangle a few of the threads, which are still so unknown to us that we immediately assume them to be either marvellously new or ...
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Alternative Medicines, Alternative Worldviews

2001
Abstract Many of America's alternative healing systems function as vehicles for the transmission of alternative spiritual philosophies. Chiropractic medicine, Osteopathy, Holistic Healing, Therapeutic Touch, and Alcoholics Anonymous are but a few of the alternative healing systems that have deep roots in the American metaphysical ...
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