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  
 
  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 .
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ; preview at Google Books

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

 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.

Perubatan alternatif

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