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Complementary, Alternative, Unconventional, and Integrative Medicine

Complementary, Alternative, Unconventional, and Integrative Medicine EDITORIAL Complementary, Alternative, Unconventional, and Integrative Medicine Call for Papers for the Annual Coordinated Theme Issues of the AMA Journals ROM ACUPUNCTURE to aromatherapy, from or are developing courses on alternative medical prac- homeopathy to hypnosis, and from relax- tices in their medical education programs. New bio- ation therapy to reflexology, numerous prac- medical journals devoted to the scientific evaluation of tices that are termed complementary, alter- unconventional health claims also have been launched. native, unconventional, or integrative Given the burgeoning interest in alternative medicine have become increasingly prevalent and popu- medicine among the general public, patients, physi- lar. Even though many of these therapies encompass di- cians, academic medical centers, and health care pay- verse modalities and philosophies that usually are con- ers, the JAMA Editorial Board and senior staff and the sidered outside the realm of mainstream allopathic editors of the American Medical Association (AMA) medicine, the use of complementary medicine interven- Archives Journals, using our annual modified Delphi tions, visits to alternative medicine practitioners, and ex- process, ranked alternative medicine among the top 3 penditures for these therapies are substantial. In the United subjects (of 86) for our journals to address in the com- States, the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA Internal Medicine American Medical Association

Complementary, Alternative, Unconventional, and Integrative Medicine

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Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright 1998 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
2168-6106
eISSN
2168-6114
DOI
10.1001/archinte.158.1.9
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Abstract

EDITORIAL Complementary, Alternative, Unconventional, and Integrative Medicine Call for Papers for the Annual Coordinated Theme Issues of the AMA Journals ROM ACUPUNCTURE to aromatherapy, from or are developing courses on alternative medical prac- homeopathy to hypnosis, and from relax- tices in their medical education programs. New bio- ation therapy to reflexology, numerous prac- medical journals devoted to the scientific evaluation of tices that are termed complementary, alter- unconventional health claims also have been launched. native, unconventional, or integrative Given the burgeoning interest in alternative medicine have become increasingly prevalent and popu- medicine among the general public, patients, physi- lar. Even though many of these therapies encompass di- cians, academic medical centers, and health care pay- verse modalities and philosophies that usually are con- ers, the JAMA Editorial Board and senior staff and the sidered outside the realm of mainstream allopathic editors of the American Medical Association (AMA) medicine, the use of complementary medicine interven- Archives Journals, using our annual modified Delphi tions, visits to alternative medicine practitioners, and ex- process, ranked alternative medicine among the top 3 penditures for these therapies are substantial. In the United subjects (of 86) for our journals to address in the com- States, the

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JAMA Internal MedicineAmerican Medical Association

Published: Jan 12, 1998

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