PINUS Association Symposium: ‘Medicine and the New Paradigms of Science’
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The World Health Organization has outlined a new strategy shifting the focus of medicine from the concept of health as lack of illness to the concept of health as psycho-physical wellbeing. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can make a key contribution to human medicine and guarantee the wholeness, integrity and full dignity of patients in their free choice of the proper health treatment, in compliance with Article 32 of the Italian Constitution. Such therapeutic approaches must be rational and can no longer afford to be self-referential. Non-conventional medicines represent a development of medical knowledge and practice. The evolution of medical doctrine at the end of the nineteenth century led undeniably to great medical progress. The methodological and epistemological approaches of complementary medicines are useful in meeting the requirements of the twenty-first century, as stated in the Chart of Medical Professionals, as they widen the diagnostic and therapeutic horizons far beyond the postulates of 130 years ago. CAM is a widely used term, but it has no commonly accepted definition. The definition developed at a 1997 conference of the United States Office for Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (now the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCCAM) and subsequently adopted by the Cochrane Collaboration and the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine states,
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005