Alternative medicine: methinks the doctor protests too much and incidentally befuddles the debate.
Open Access
- 1 March 1992
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Vol. 18 (1) , 23-25
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.18.1.23
Abstract
Dr Kottow in his paper Classical medicine v alternative medical practices (1) places the alternative/orthodox medicine debate within an historical context of anti-quackery literature. My paper explores the nature of science as it is applied to clinical practice and challenges the narrow view of the diagnostic process as outlined by Dr Kottow. Research methodologies more appropriate to 'whole person' medicine are suggested as having more ethical value than those based on the clinical trial.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Classical medicine v alternative medical practices.Journal of Medical Ethics, 1992
- DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS.1963