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One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional, or biomedical, care with complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, herbal medicine, and spiritual healing. In Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion, Michael H. Cohen discusses the need for establishing rules and standards to facilitate appropriate integration of conventional and CAM therapies.The kind of integrated health care many patients seek dwells in a borderland between the physical and the spiritual, between the quantifiable and the immeasurable, observes Cohen. But this kind of care fails to present clear rules for clinicians regarding which therapies to recommend, accept, or discourage, and how to discuss patient requests regarding inclusion of such therapies. Focusing on the social, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of integrative care and grounding his analysis in the attendant legal, regulatory, and institutional changes, Cohen facilitates a multidisciplinary conversation about the shift to a more fluid, pluralistic health care environment.
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Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion
STUDIES IN SOCIAL MEDICINE
Allan M. Brandt & Larry R. Churchill, editors
michael h. cohen
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The University of North Carolina Press chapel hill
∫ 2006 The University
Portions of this book were previously
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This book was published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.
(2004): 409–33; Chapter 2 as ‘‘Of Rogues and Regulation: A Review of Accommodating Pluralism: The Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine,’’ Vermont Law
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cohen, Michael H. Healing at the borderland of medicine and religion / by Michael H. Cohen. p. ; cm. — (Studies in social medicine) Includes bibliographical references
‘‘Regulating ‘Healing’: Notes on the Ecology of Awareness and the Awareness of Ecology,’’ St. John’s Law Review 78, no. 4 (2005): 1167–92; Chapter 5 as ‘‘Lateral Thinking: What Is the Matrix? A Radical Look at Medico-Legal Reform,’’ Alternative and Complementary Therapies 5, no. 5 (October 1999): 319–21; Chapter 6 as ‘‘Healing at the
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Borderland between Medicine and Religion: Regulating Potential Abuse of Authority by Spiritual Healers,’’ Journal of Law and Religion 18, no. 2 (2002–3): 373–426. All are reprinted here with permission.
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