| Description |
x, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Hastings Center studies in ethics
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: DANIEL CALLAHAN -- Introduction vii -- KENNETH F. SCHAFFNER -- Assessments of Efficacy in Biomedicine: The Turn toward -- Methodological Pluralism 1 -- DAVID J. HUFFORD -- CAM and Cultural Diversity: Ethics and Epistemology -- Converge 15 -- LORETTA M. KOPELMAN -- The Role of Science in Assessing Conventional, Complementary, -- and Alternative Medicines 36 -- BONNIE B. O'CONNOR -- Personal Experience, Popular Epistemology, and Complementary -- and Alternative Medicine Research 54 -- HOWARD BRODY -- The Placebo Effect: Implicationsfor the Study and Practice of -- Complementary and Alternative Medicine 74 -- DAVID B. LARSON AND SUSAN S. LARSON -- Spirituality in Clinical Care: A Brief Review of Patient Desire, -- Physician Response, and Research Opportunities 84 -- ASBJORN HROBJARTSSON AND STIG BRORSON -- Interpreting Resultsfrom Randomized Clinical Trials of -- Complementary/Alternative Interventions: The Role of Trial -- Quality and Pre-trial Beliefs 107 -- WAYNE B. JONAS -- Evidence, Ethics, and the Evaluation of Global Medicine 122 -- TOM WHITMARSH -- The Nature of Evidence in Complementary and Alternative -- Medicine: Ideasfrom Trials of Homeopathy in Chronic -- Headache 148 -- PAUL ROOT WOLPE -- Medical Culture and CAM Culture: Science and Ritual in the -- Academic Medical Center 163 -- ALFRED I. TAUBER -- The Questfor Holism in Medicine 172 -- Contributors 190 -- Index 196. |
| Subject |
Alternative medicine
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| Added Author |
Callahan, Daniel, 1930-
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| Added Title |
Role of complementary & alternative medicine |
| ISBN |
0878408770 |
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