The role of complementary and alternative medicine: accommodating pluralism

In: Hastings Center studies in ethics

Abstract

Assessments of efficacy in biomedicine : the turn toward methodological pluralism / Kenneth F. Schaffner -- CAM and cultural diversity : ethics and epistemology converge / David J. Hufford -- The role of science in assessing conventional, complementary, and alternative medicines / Loretta M. Kopelman -- Personal experience, popular epistemology, and complementary and alternative medicine research / Bonnie B. O'Connor -- The placebo effect : implications for the study and practice of complementary and alternative medicine / Howard Brody -- Spirituality in clinical care : a brief review of patient desire, physician response, and research opportunities / David B. Larson and Susan S. Larson -- Interpreting results from randomized clinical trials of complementary/alternative interventions : the role of trial quality and pre-trial beliefs / Asbjørn Hróbjartsson and Stig Brorson -- Evidence, ethics, and the evaluation of global medicine ; Appendix. A clinical example of causality applied longitudinally to chronic conditions / Wayne B. Jonas -- The nature of evidence in complementary and alternative medicine : ideas from trials of homeopathy in chronic headache / Tom Whitmarsh -- Medical culture and CAM culture : science and ritual in the academic medical center / Paul Root Wolpe -- The quest for holism in medicine / Alfred I. Tauber