Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Daniel Callahan is director of international programs at The Hastings Center and senior fellow at the Harvard Medical School. His many books include False Hopes and The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death.

• IntroductionDaniel CallahanAssessments of Efficacy in Biomedicine: The Turn toward Methodological PluralismKenneth F. ShaffnerCAM and Cultural Diversity: Ethics and Epistemology ConvergeDavid J. Hufford The Role of Science in Assessing Conventional, Complementary, and Alternative MedicinesLoretta M. KopelmanPersonal Experience, Popular Epistemology, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine ResearchBonnie B. O'ConnorThe Placebo Effect: Implications for the Study and Practice of Complementary and Alternative MedicineHoward BrodySpirituality in Clinical Care: A Brief Review of Patient Desire, Physician Response, and Research OpportunitiesDavid B. Larson and Susan B. LarsonInterpreting Results from Randomized Clinical Trials of Complementary/Alternative Interventions: The Role of Trial Quality and Pre-trial BeliefsAsbjorn Hrobjartsson and Stig BrorsonEvidence, Ethics, and the Evaluation of Global MedicineWayne B. JonasThe Nature of Evidence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ideas from Trials of Homeopathy in Chronic HeadacheTom Whitmarsh Medical Culture and CAM Culture: Science and Ritual in the Academic Medical CenterPaul Root Wolpe The Quest for Holism in MedicineAlfred I. TauberContributors Index

Highly recommend[ed] ... as a resource for all researchers and investigators, academics and scholars, and students both favorable or opposed to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). This thought-provoking and exciting book is unparalleled in the field. It offers food for intellectual thought and meets the need for elucidating critical yet balanced discourse on the meaning and therapeutic values and efficacy of CAM. Doody's Review Service Although many books are available about CAM, this books makes its mark because it explores the relationship between CAM and conventional medicine. The Annals of Pharmacotherapy