Biomedical orthodoxy and complementary and alternative medicine: Ethical challenges of integrating medical cultures.
This paper examines biomedicine's contemporary overture to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the move toward an integrated medical system. The paper argues that a major challenge of our increasingly integrating medical culture is raising commensurate personnel to grapple with the changing ethical landscape, especially with regard to understanding the methodologies and philosophies of CAM's therapeutic paradigms. Such personnel is required to tackle realistically the critical ethical challenge of our amalgamating medical system, namely an acceptable framework for evaluating the efficacy of CAM's plural therapeutic paradigms.
Oguamanam
Chidi
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Dalhousie Law School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. CHIDI@DAL.CA
D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics*; D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000941:ethics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000941:ethics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D014943:Global Health; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000941:ethics