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Adobe Acrobat documents related to CAM
The following documents are available in Acrobat (.pdf)
format only, and must be downloaded to be read.
CAM in Australia -
Overview of place of CAM in Australia - Donohoe 1997/98
Appendices for CAM in Australia
References for CAM in Australia
The
Micozzi Interview - Interview of Mark Micozzi, executive
director of American College of physicians, on the place of
traditional medicine in the modern health care system.
The
ACMA Directions and Opportunities white paper - Authored by the Australian
Comprehensive Medicine Association (ACMA) in 1995 originally, it describes
processes and mechanisms for organising the integration of complementary
medicine into orthodox medical care in Australia.
Truth,
ethics and consensus - paper by Stephen Davies regarding
the value and pitfalls of "expert committees" and consensus
papers, especially when the process is abused to exclude
valid approaches and scientific inquiry.
Medicine
and complementary medicine - Annals of Internal
Medicine article on the approach of medical practitioners to
complementary medicine
Medicine
and complementary medicine - Medical Journal of
Australia article on the approach of medical practitioners
to complementary medicine
Some of the articles below are available in Acrobat (.pdf) format for downloading (click on the Acrobat after the name). This preserves the original "look and feel" of the document, but requires that the user have Adobe Acrobat 3 (available free of charge from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com).
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