I m not really interested in hyperbolic assertions who said anything about western canons of legitimacy being irrelevant but if you want a good solid sourced quote to use let s use the one Gandy provided at the beginning of the Continued from above section Complementary and Alternative Medicine CAM is a broad domain of resources that encompasses health systems modalities and practices and their accompanying theories and beliefs other than those intrinsic to the dominant health system of a particular society or culture in a given historical period CAM includes such resources perceived by their users as associated with positive health outcomes Boundaries within CAM and between the CAM domain and the domain of the dominant system are not always sharp or fixed gandy we seem to have lost the citation for this can you recover it As I said then it s hellishly wordy mine is much simpler and says the essentially the same but at least it s a straight forward description we ll deal with synth as it arises Ludwigs2