Popularity of Alternative Medicine

The Popularity of Alternative Medicine

Medicalization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a Historical-Critical Analysis

Medicalization, in the sense of expansion of medicine in different aspects of human life and ultimately the transformation of medicine into a tool of social control and domination, is a common interpenetration in the literature. This concept, since its inception in the mid-twentieth century, has been an exclusive critique of modern medicine, meaning that branch of medicine based on biomedical p...

Cancer quackery: the persistent popularity of useless, irrational 'alternative' treatments.

At a time when many readily believe that vaccines cause autism, or that government scientists created AIDS as a weapon of black genocide, it is not surprising that medical quackery, especially cancer quackery, remains a flourishing and lucrative business throughout the developed world. This review provides a brief recap of its history and an overview of the various types of unproven or disprove...

An alternative to alternative medicine.

Both sides in this argument assume that the treatment recommended by the practitioner is the only active ingredient in the consultation. Placebo, having no active ingredient, is offered by one side, and accepted by the other as a term of abuse. Neither side considers that personalities, words, or behaviour have a legitimate effect on outcomes, or that many questions arising in consultations wil...

Status of Traditional Medicine/Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

The popularity and acceptance of Traditional/Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) in the treatment of various ailments has persisted over the millennia. The formulations are so made as to minimize the untoward effects and enhance synergism, thereby increasing the efficacy of the preparation as a whole. The idea was perhaps based on the logic of humoral concept and study of temperaments...