Type | Book |
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Author | Hans A Baer |
Place | Madison, Wisconsin |
Publisher | The University of Wisconsin Press |
Date | 2001 |
ISBN | 0299166902 |
Short Title | Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RA418.3.U6 B34 2001 |
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Examining medical pluralism in the United States from the Revolutionary War period through the end of the twentieth century, Hans Baer brings together in one convenient reference a vast array of information on healing systems as diverse as Christian Science, osteopathy, acupuncture, Santeria, southern Appalachian herbalism, evangelical faith healing, and Navajo healing. In a country where the dominant paradigm of biomedicine (medical schools, research hospitals, clinics staffed by M.D.s and R.N.s,) has been long established and supported by laws and regulations, the continuing appeal of other medical systems and subsystems bears careful consideration. Distinctions of class, Baer emphasizes, as well as differences in race, ethnicity, and gender, are fundamental to the diversity of beliefs, techniques, and social organizations represented in the phenomenon of medical pluralism. Baer traces the simultaneous emergence in the nineteenth century of formalized biomedicine and of homeopathy, botanic medicine, hydropathy, Christian Science, osteopathy, and chiropractic. He examines present-day osteopathic medicine as a system parallel to biomedicine with an emphasis on primary care; chiropractic, naturopathy, and acupuncture as professionalized heterodox medical systems; homeopathy, herbalism, bodywork, and lay midwifery in the context of the holistic health movement; Anglo-American religious healing; and folk medical systems, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities. In closing, he focuses on the persistence of folk medical systems among working-class Americans and considers the growing interest of biomedical physicians, pharmaceutical and health care corporations, and government in the holistic health movement.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Hans A. Baer |
Abstract | Naturopathic medicine in the United States had its inception around the turn of the 20th century. Subsequently, it underwent a process of relatively rapid growth until around the 1930s, followed by a period of gradual decline almost to the point of extinction due to biomedical opposition and the advent of "miracle drugs." Because its therapeutic eclecticism had preadapted it to fit into the holistic health movement that emerged in the 1970s, it was able to undergo a process of organizational rejuvenation during the last two decades of the century. Nevertheless, U.S. naturopathy as a professionalized heterodox medical system faces several dilemmas as it enters the new millennium. These include (1) the fact that it has succeeded in obtaining licensure in only two sections of the country, namely, the Far West and New England; (2) increasing competition from partially professionalized and lay naturopaths, many of whom are graduates of correspondence schools; and (3) the danger of cooptation as many biomedical practitioners adopt natural therapies. |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 329-346 |
Date | Sep., 2001 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/649583 |
Accessed | Tue Nov 10 01:13:08 2009 |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Sep., 2001 / Copyright © 2001 American Anthropological Association |
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Naturopathic medicine in the United States had its inception around the turn of the 20th century. Subsequently, it underwent a process of relatively rapid growth until around the 1930s, followed by a period of gradual decline almost to the point of extinction due to biomedical opposition and the advent of “miracle drugs.” Because its therapeutic eclecticism had preadapted it to fit into the holistic health movement that emerged in the 1970s, it was able to undergo a process of organizational rejuvenation during the last two decades of the century. Nevertheless, U.S. naturopathy as a professionalized heterodox medical system faces several dilemmas as it enters the new millennium. These include (1) the fact that it has succeeded in obtaining licensure in only two sections of the country, namely, the Far West and New England; (2) increasing competition from partially professionalized and lay naturopaths, many of whom are graduates of correspondence schools; and (3) the danger of cooptation as many biomedical practitioners adopt natural therapies.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Robert C. Fuller |
Publication | The Journal of Religion |
Volume | 67 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 50-65 |
Date | Jan., 1987 |
ISSN | 00224189 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1203316 |
Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:28:11 2009 |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan., 1987 / Copyright © 1987 The University of Chicago Press |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | S Grof |
Abstract | Holotropic states (a large special subgroup of nonordinary states of consciousness) have been the focus of many fields of modern research, such as experiential psychotherapy, clinical and laboratory work with psychedelic substances, field anthropology, thanatology, and therapy with individuals undergoing psychospiritual crises ("spiritual emergencies"). This research has generated a plethora of extraordinary observations that have undermined some of the most fundamental assumptions of modern psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. Some of these new findings seriously challenge the most basic philosophical tenets of Western science concerning the relationship between matter, life, and consciousness. This article summarizes the most important major revisions that would have to be made in our understanding of consciousness and of the human psyche in health and disease to accommodate these conceptual challenges. These areas of changes include: a new understanding and cartography of the human psyche; the nature and architecture of emotional and psychosomatic disorders; therapeutic mechanisms and the process of healing; the strategy of psychotherapy and self-exploration; the role of spirituality in human life; and the nature of reality. |
Publication | Journal of Psychoactive Drugs |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 343-357 |
Date | 1998 Oct-Dec |
Journal Abbr | J Psychoactive Drugs |
ISSN | 0279-1072 |
Short Title | Human nature and the nature of reality |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9924840 |
Accessed | Thu Nov 12 17:47:21 2009 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 9924840 |
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Holotropic states (a large special subgroup of nonordinary states of consciousness) have been the focus of many fields of modern research, such as experiential psychotherapy, clinical and laboratory work with psychedelic substances, field anthropology, thanatology, and therapy with individuals undergoing psychospiritual crises (“spiritual emergencies”). This research has generated a plethora of extraordinary observations that have undermined some of the most fundamental assumptions of modern psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. Some of these new findings seriously challenge the most basic philosophical tenets of Western science concerning the relationship between matter, life, and consciousness. This article summarizes the most important major revisions that would have to be made in our understanding of consciousness and of the human psyche in health and disease to accommodate these conceptual challenges. These areas of changes include: a new understanding and cartography of the human psyche; the nature and architecture of emotional and psychosomatic disorders; therapeutic mechanisms and the process of healing; the strategy of psychotherapy and self-exploration; the role of spirituality in human life; and the nature of reality.
Type | Book |
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Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
Place | Notre Dame Ind. |
Publisher | University of Notre Dame Press |
Date | 1986 |
ISBN | 9780268017217 |
Short Title | Suffering presence |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Book |
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Author | Meredith McGuire |
Place | New Brunswick |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Date | 1988 |
ISBN | 9780813513126 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lionel R Milgrom |
Abstract | Though in use for over 200 years, and still benefiting millions of people worldwide today, homeopathy is currently under continuous attacks for being "unscientific." The reasons for this can be understood in terms of what might be called a "New Fundamentalism," emanating particularly but not exclusively from within biomedicine, and supported in some sections of the media. Possible reasons for this are discussed. New Fundamentalism's hallmarks include the denial of evidence for the efficacy of any therapeutic modality that cannot be consistently "proven" using double-blind, randomized controlled trials. It excludes explanations of homeopathy's efficacy; ignores, excoriates, or considers current research data supporting those explanations incomprehensible, particularly from outside biomedicine: it is also not averse to using experimental bias, hearsay, and innuendo in order to discredit homeopathy. Thus, New Fundamentalism is itself unscientific. This may have consequences in the future for how practitioners, researchers, and patients of homeopathy/complementary and alternative medicine engage and negotiate with primary health care systems. |
Publication | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.) |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 589-594 |
Date | Jun 2008 |
Journal Abbr | J Altern Complement Med |
DOI | 10.1089/acm.2007.0729 |
ISSN | 1557-7708 |
Short Title | Homeopathy and the new fundamentalism |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18564960 |
Accessed | Mon Nov 9 00:58:59 2009 |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18564960 |
Date Added | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Modified | Sat Oct 1 17:02:41 2011 |
Though in use for over 200 years, and still benefiting millions of people worldwide today, homeopathy is currently under continuous attacks for being “unscientific.” The reasons for this can be understood in terms of what might be called a “New Fundamentalism,” emanating particularly but not exclusively from within biomedicine, and supported in some sections of the media. Possible reasons for this are discussed. New Fundamentalism’s hallmarks include the denial of evidence for the efficacy of any therapeutic modality that cannot be consistently “proven” using double-blind, randomized controlled trials. It excludes explanations of homeopathy’s efficacy; ignores, excoriates, or considers current research data supporting those explanations incomprehensible, particularly from outside biomedicine: it is also not averse to using experimental bias, hearsay, and innuendo in order to discredit homeopathy. Thus, New Fundamentalism is itself unscientific. This may have consequences in the future for how practitioners, researchers, and patients of homeopathy/complementary and alternative medicine engage and negotiate with primary health care systems.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | David B. Morris |
Abstract | The modernist “biomedical model” offers an inadequate understanding of illness. At the same time, some of the conceptual constructs that are offered to supplement the biomedical model are carelessly employed. Much that is said and written about empathy and healing, in particular, fails to reflect the historical and critical self-awareness of postmodern thinking at its best. |
Publication | The Hastings Center Report |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 7-16 |
Date | Nov. - Dec., 2000 |
ISSN | 00930334 |
Short Title | How to Speak Postmodern |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3528447 |
Accessed | Sun Nov 8 23:28:48 2009 |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov. - Dec., 2000 / Copyright © 2000 The Hastings Center |
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Modified | Tue Nov 15 12:43:55 2011 |
The modernist “biomedical model” offers an inadequate understanding of illness. At the same time, some of the conceptual constructs that are offered to supplement the biomedical model are carelessly employed. Much that is said and written about empathy and healing, in particular, fails to reflect the historical and critical self-awareness of postmodern thinking at its best.