The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine

And Aberrant Medical Practices

Summer 2001 Volume 5 ~ Number 3

Original Research:

Effects of Banasteriopsis caapi Extract on Parkinson's Disease
MARCUS SERRANO-DUENAS, FERNANDO CARDOZO-PELAEZ, and JUAN R. SANCHEZ-RAMOS

Review:

Veterinary Acupuncture and Historical Scholarship:
Claims for the Antiquity of Acupuncture
ROBERT IMRIE, DAVID W. RAMEY, PAUL D. BUELL,
EDZARD ERNST, and STEPHEN BASSER

Acupuncture Points and Meridians Do Not Exist
DAVID W. RAMEY

Homeopathy and Critical Thinking
KIMBALL C. ATWOOD

Commentary:

Convergence and Divergence of Scientific and "Alternative" Medicine:
Historical Moments
ALISON KLAIRMONT and PETER BARGLOW

The Irrational Reformation
ROCHELLE BARNES

Factors that Shape Critical Thinking about "Alternative Medicine"
KIMBALL C. ATWOOD

How We know Whether a Medical Treatment Works -
Quality of Evidence
GEORGE E. LARIMORE and LAWRENCE E. MULKERIN

Analysis:

How to Investigate Aberrant Practice Practitioners:
A Case of Primary Lateral Sclerosis
TIMOTHY GORSKI

Aberrant Claims: Magnetism and Copper Bracelets
GERALD WEISSMANN

Book Review:

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctor, and the Collision of Two Cultures,

by Anne Fadiman
RITA SWAN


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