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Can There Be An Alternative Medicine?
Hanzade DOĞAN* Dr.İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Tıp Tarihi ve Deontoloji ABD, İSTANBUL
The group of practices and methods termed as “alternative medicine”, despite its controversial stance, continuously and in a growing pace serves in solving and eliminating many treatment problems experienced daily by the medical professionals and institutions.
Medicine, in its theory and practice, has been contributed by almost all of the non medical disciplines over the centuries and has progressed greatly because of this multidisciplinary support.
In this context, medicine is roughly regarded as the whole of various methods and practices for the common goal of maintaining and promoting the physical and spiritual health of human societies. This approach rejects the classification of some methods that serve this purpose as separate from medicine and having termed as alternative medicine, apart from the whole.
This article presents the results of a survey carried out among medical students, scholars, and professionals in search of the general perception of the term alternative medicine by the medical society.Keywords: Medicine, Alternative, Herbal, Acupuncture, Cosmetic surgery, Organ transplantation, PsychotherapyTurkiye Klinikleri Tıbbi Etik 1997, 5:32-34
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