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Research: LECKRIDGE,
Listed in Issue 108
Abstract
LECKRIDGE, Enable Health and Learning Ltd., Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, bob.leckridge@virgin.net, has reviewed (8 references) the future of alternative and complementary medicine and models of integration. Abstract: The current definitions of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and orthodoxy, which are culturally and politically determined, obscure the debate about holism and integrative care. They give therapies and therapists precedence over patients in the design of health care systems. This paper considers three current models of delivery of CAM and biomedical care. These models are the market model, the regulated model, and the assimilated model. Each of these models is described and consideration is given to likely futures for each of them. A fourth model, the patient centred model, is proposed, which shifts the power from therapists to patients and regulates products and services irrespective of CAM or biomedical definitions. Only this latter model is presented as the one likely to support the development of truly integrated medicine, explicitly for the benefit of patients rather than therapists or industries.
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Leckridge B. The future of complementary and alternative medicine – models of integration. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 10(2): 413-416, Apr 2004.
