HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Allopathic Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Outline Of Health Sciences
16 Mar 2016
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Cam are methods of treatment both used separately (alternaively) and preventaively and/or in associaion with (complementary to) allopathic medicine such as: massage, acupuncture, prayer and faith healing, chiropracic, naturopathy. Cams are all the health-care pracices that difer from allopathic medicine. Cams tend not to be taught at allopathic medical schools and most are unavailable in north american hospitals. Various cams have been accepted and are readily available in a number of countries around the world in places where they may be seen as convenional. Allopathic (convenional) medicine refers to a type of healing based on opposiion. Today, many allopathic doctors now believe that convenional medicine beneits from some of the ideas and methods used in alternaive medicine, and refer their own paients to cam praciioners. Sutherland and verhoef (1994) studied the psychosocial determinants of alternaive medicine use among people at a gastroenterology clinic in calgary, 87% of whom used cam. Praciioners among these were chiropractors, herbalists, homeopaths, and naturopaths.
