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Conventional v Alternative Medicine - Debate in Atlantic Monthly

boardswalker · 2011-06-22 16:32:32

There's a debate taking place over at Atlantic Monthly, well known US magazine. The magazine summarised the issues as follows "For years, the medical profession kept a cool distance from alternative medicine, which most doctors dismissed as the province of hippies and snake oil salesmen. Now that's changing, as David H.…

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There's a debate taking place over at Atlantic Monthly, well known US magazine.

The magazine summarised the issues as follows

"For years, the medical profession kept a cool distance from alternative medicine, which most doctors dismissed as the province of hippies and snake oil salesmen. Now that's changing, as David H. Freedman explains in a new Atlantic article. More and more physicians are recommending alternative therapies to their patients and many now say that acupuncture and meditation work better than expensive drugs at treating major chronic diseases.

Is alternative medicine really ready to claim a place in the mainstream? And what does the popularity of alternative treatments tell us about the weaknesses of modern medicine? To answer these questions, we asked seven leaders in the field as well as vocal skeptics to comment on Freedman's essay. We’ll be posting one response each day over the next couple of weeks. "

Freedman's Article is here http://tinyurl.com/6j39quy
The comments on the article are here http://tinyurl.com/68jw25p

The differing perspectives are quite interesting. There's a similar over and back to what goes on here when alternatives are mentioned but maybe a little bit more restrained.

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