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    The role of complementary and alternative medicine : accommodating pluralism / Daniel Callahan, editor.

    • Title:The role of complementary and alternative medicine : accommodating pluralism / Daniel Callahan, editor.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Callahan, Daniel, 1930-2019.
    • Published/Created:Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2002.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Alternative medicine.
    • Description:x, 214 p. : illustrations.
    • Series:Hastings Center studies in ethics.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0878408770 (case : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Introduction / Daniel Callahan
      Assessments of Efficacy in Biomedicine: The Turn toward Methodological Pluralism / Kenneth F. Schaffner
      CAM and Cultural Diversity: Ethics and Epistemology Converge / David J. Hufford
      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
      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 / Asbjorn Hrobjartsson and Stig Brorson
      Evidence, Ethics, and the Evaluation of Global Medicine / Wayne B. Jonas
      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
      Quest for Holism in Medicine / Alfred I. Tauber.
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