ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN THE UNITED-STATES
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN THE UNITED-STATES
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DOI：
10.1016/0277-9536(94)90223-2
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发表时间：
1994-04-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
WARDWELL, WI
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作者：
WARDWELL, WI
由于“替代医学”一词被定义为任何非常规药物，因此它不是一个有用的类别。 它需要进一步的规范，以促进对其所代表的许多不同类型的健康实践的实证研究：即原始医学、民间医学、草药、顺势疗法、脊椎按摩疗法、自然疗法、信仰治疗、新时代治疗等。作者早期将健康职业分类为辅助、有限、边缘和准从业者，为研究这些群体与有组织的医学之间的关系以及这些群体从一种状态到另一种状态的运动提供了一套富有成果的类别。 例子包括整骨疗法从边缘到被完全接受为正统的演变，以及脊椎按摩疗法从边缘到有限医学专业的推定演变。 在准专业群体中，进一步细分为民间和原始治疗师、信仰治疗师和庸医。也包括那些使用自然力量进行治疗的人和那些坦率地援引超自然力量或实体的人之间的关系。
Since the term 'alternative medicine' is defined residually as anything not regular medicine, it is not a useful category. It needs further specification in order to facilitate empirical investigation of the many varied types of health practices it denotes: namely, primitive medicine, folk medicine, herbal medicine, homeopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, faith healing, New Age Healing, etc. The author's earlier classification of health professions into ancillary, limited, marginal, and quasi practitioners offers a fruitful set of categories for investigation relationships between these groups and organized medicine, and the movement of these groups from one status to another. Examples are the evolution of osteophathy from marginal to full acceptance as orthodox, and chiropractic's putative evolution from marginal to a limited medical profession. Within the quasi professional group, further subclassification distinguishes between folk and primitive healers, faith healers, and quacks; also between those who heal using natural forces and those who frankly invoke supernatural forces or entities.