The Role of Evidence in Alternative Medicine : Contrasting Biomedical and Anthropological Approaches  

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Barry, Christine Ann

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 11 (Jun. 2006), page 2646-2657.
Topik: biomedical; UK; evidence based medicin; anthropology; alternative and complementary medicine

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.4 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The growth of alternative medicine and its insurgence into the realms of the bomedical system raises a number of questions about the nature of evidence. Calls for gold standard randomised controlled trial evidence, by both biomedical and political establishments, to legitimate the integration of alternative medicine into healthcare systems, can be interpreted as deeply political. In this paper, the supposed objectivity of scientific, biomedical forms of evidence is questioned through an illumination of the multiple rhetorics embedded int he evidence based medicine phenomenon, both within biomedicine itself and in calls for its use to evaluate alternative therapeutic systems. Anthropological notions of evidence are constructed very differently from those of biomedical science, and offer a closer resonance with the philosophy of medicine. Ethnograhic evidence of what works in alternative medicine includes concepts such as transcendent promotion of differently constructed modes of evidence can be used to legitimise altenative medicine by widening the definition of what works in therapy and offering a critique of what people feel is lacking from much of orthodix medical care.

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