Two into One Won’t Go: Conceptual, Clinical, Ethical and Legal Impedimenta to the Convergence of CAM and Orthodox Medicine

摘要: The convergence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) evidence-based (EBM) is a prominent feature healthcare in western countries, but it currently undertheorised, its implications have been insufficiently considered. Two models are described – the totally integrated model (TI) multicultural-pluralistic (MP). Both being incorporated into general medical practice. Against background reasons for increasing utilisation CAM by public practitioners, TI-convergence supported MP-convergence rejected. epistemologically clinically incoherent, cannot be regulated. It also inconsistent with developments legal determination standard care both diagnosis/treatment disclosure. These claims concerning justified fact that science not member group perspectives or world-views which postmodernism treats as equally valid, this especially important healthcare.