Shadow Medicine : : The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies / / John Haller , Jr.
Can Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) find common ground? A distinguished historian of medicine, John S. Haller Jr., explores the epistemological foundations of EBM and the challenges these conceptual tools present for both conventional and alternative th...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Evidence-Based Medicine
- 2. Postmodernist Medicine
- 3. "The Powerful Placebo"
- 4. Politics of Healing
- 5. Complementary and Alternative Medicine'S Challenge: A Case Study
- 6. Reassessment
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index