Perubatan alternatif

**Perubatan alternatif** merujuk pada sebarang amalan yang mendakwa menyembuhkan "yang tidak termasuk dalam rangkuman perubatan konvensional." Ia mungkin berasaskan sejarah atau tradisi budaya, berbanding dari bukti saintifik.

Perubatan alternatif biasanya dikelompokkan dengan **perubatan pengiring** atau **perubatan bersepadu**, yang, secara umum, merujuk pada campurtangan yang sama apabila digunakan bersama dengan teknik aliran utama, di bawah istilah umum **perubatan mengiring dan alternatif**, atau **CAM**. Para pengkritik mengatakan istilah “pelengkap” dan “perubatan alternatif” merupakan *euphemism* mengelirukan bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran bidang kuasa perubatan.

Pada tahun 1998 penilaian semula sistematik bagi kajian menilai penggunaannya di 13 negara merumuskan bahawa sekitar 31% pesakit barah menggunakan satu bentuk perubatan pengiring dan alternatif. Perubatan alternatif berbeza dari satu negara ke negara yang lain. Bidang kuasa di mana amalan perubatan terbesar meluas mungkin melesen dan mengawalkannya. Edzard Ernst telah menyatakab bahawa di Austria dan Jerman perubatan pengiring dan alternatif kebanyakannya di tangan pakar perubatan, sementara sesetengan mencadangkan anggaran bahawa separuh dari pengamal alternatif Amerika Syarikat merupakan para perubatan. Di Jerman herba dikawal ketat: separuh diberikan oleh doktor dan diterima oleh insuran perubatan berdasarkan berdasarkan perundangan Komisen E.

## Sumber akademik
* Cochrane and alternative medicine  (full lists of updated reviews found on Knowledge and Research Center for Alternative Medicine )

## Rujukan

## Bacaan lanjut
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*  Benedetti F, Maggi G, Lopiano L. "Open Versus Hidden Medical Treatments: The Patient's Knowledge About a Therapy Affects the Therapy Outcome." *Prevention & Treatment*, 2003; **6**(1), APA online
* Bivins, Roberta "Alternative Medicine?: A History" Oxford University Press 2008
* Diamond, J. *Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations*, 2001, ISBN 978-0-09-942833-6 , foreword by Richard Dawkins reprinted in Dawkins, R., *A Devil's Chaplain*, 2003,  ISBN 978-0-7538-1750-6 .
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### Penerbitan Organisasi Kesihatan Sedunia
* WHO Global Atlas of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine

### Journal khusus pada penyelidikan perubatan alternatif
* Alternative therapies in health and medicine. Aliso Viejo, CA : InnoVision Communications, c1995- NLM ID: 9502013
* Alternative medicine review : a journal of clinical therapeutic. Sandpoint, Idaho : Thorne Research, Inc., c1996- NLM ID: 9705340
* BMC complementary and alternative medicine . London : BioMed Central, 2001- NLM ID: 101088661
* Complementary therapies in medicine. Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, c1993- NLM ID: 9308777
* Evidence based complementary and alternative medicine 
* Evidence Based journal of Integrative medicine
* Forschende Komplementärmedizin / Research in Complementary Medicine
* Journal of Integrative medicine.
* Journal for Alternative and Complementary Medicine New York, NY : Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., c1995
* Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (SRAM) 
* Journal Of Dietary Supplements

## Pautan luar
* The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: U.S. National Institutes of Health
* The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine : U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
* Knowledge and Research Center for Alternative Medicine : Denmark, the Ministry of the Interior and Health
*Guidelines For Using Complementary and Alternative Methods : from the American Cancer Society
* Complementary and Alternative Medicine Index: from the University of Maryland Medical Center
* Integrative Medicine Podcasts and Handouts: Teaching modules from the University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine Program
* "Alternative Medicine": A BBC/Open University television series that examines the evidence scientifically
* "Complementary and alternative medicine: What is it?": from the Mayo Clinic
* Natural Standard Research Collaboration
* Alternative Medicine Health Directory
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* Who Gets to Validate Alternative Medicine?: from PBS

### Kritikan
* Davis, Adam Brooke. "A Few Words About Folk Medicine/" Folklorist argues against uncritical use of traditional healing practices, especially by non-members of the cultures which generate the traditions
* What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine?  – Steven Novella, MD
* "Alternative" health practice – Skeptic's Dictionary
* Quackwatch.org – Stephen Barrett (See also: Quackwatch)
*  ''Healing, Hype, or Harm? A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine'', by Edzard Ernst (Editor) (2008), reviewed in ''Metapsychology''. 
* What's the harm? Website listing cases of people harmed by various alternative treatments.