Description: Shadow Medicine : The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies, Hardcover by Haller, John S., Jr., ISBN 0231169043, ISBN-13 9780231169042, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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 therapies. As he explores a possible reconciliation between their conflicting approaches, Haller maintains a healthy, scientific skepticism yet finds promise in select complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies. Haller elucidates recent research on the placebo effect and shows how a new engagement between EBM and CAM might lead to a more productive medical practice that includes both the objectivity of evidence-based medicine and the subjective truth of the physician-patient relationship.
Hallers book tours key topics in the standoff between EBM and CAM: how and why the double blinded, randomized clinical trial (RCT) came to be considered the gold standard in modern medicine; the challenge of postmodern medicine as it counters the positivism of evidence-based medicine; and the politics of modern CAM and the rise of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. He conducts an in-depth case study of homeopathy, explaining why it has emerged as a poster-child for CAM, and assesses CAMs popularity despite its poor performance in clinical trials. Haller concludes with hope, showing how new experimental protocols might tease out the evidentiary basis for the placebo effect and establish a foundation for some reconciliation between EBM and CAM.
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Book Title: Shadow Medicine : The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative The
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Publication Year: 2014
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Shadow Medicine: the Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies
Language: English
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Physical Therapy
Author: John S. Haller
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
