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| Contents: Reviews: Placebo Effects: A Conceptual Analysis and a Reply to Kienle and Kiene; Veterinary Acupuncture and Historical Scholarship: The "Traditions" of Acupuncture and TCM; Commentary: Has the Association of American Medical Colleges Lost Its Focus?; Case History: Socially Harmful but Unapparent Effects of the NCCAM - Columbia University - Gonzalez Protocol; Analysis: Chiropractic Information in a Public Library |
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| Contents: Editorial: The Foolish Enterprise of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; SPECIAL SECTION ON PC-SPES: Testimony of David Heber, MD, PhD, FACP, FACN, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform; PC-SPES History, Fact, Rumor, and Supposition: A Chronology of the PC-SPES Affair from the Perspective of the Patient; Review: Shark Cartilage for Cancer; Commentary: The Ethics of Anomalous, Unconventional Therapies: A Utilitarian Response; Analysis: Analysis of Claims and of an Experiment to Prove That Oxygen is Present in "Vitamin O"; Correspondence: ABO Blood Types: Evolution and the Immune System |
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| Contents: Original Research: Iridology: Diagnostic Validity in Orthopedic Trauma; Analysis: The Memory of Water Revisited; Review: Anomalous Perceptual Experiences: Believing Is Seeing Is Believing; Carl Jung, Stanislav Grof, and New Age Medical Mysticism; A Comparison between Alternative Pseudodiagnoses and Regularly Accepted Fashionable Diseases: An Analysis Prompted by the Dutch Epidemic of Obstetric "Pelvic Instability"; Commentary: Holly Zynda and the Power of Prayer: Christian Science Does Not Have Scientific Value; A Critique of the Annals of Internal Medicine "Distant Healing" Review; Characteristics of Pseudoscience |
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| Contents: Editorial: Prescription for Prayer; Original Research: Assessment of the Short-Term Effects of a Permanent Magnet on Normal Skin Blood Circulation via Laser-Doppler Flowmetry; Nonspecific Placebo Effects Explain the Therapeutic Benefit of Magnets; Review: EDTA Chelation Therapy for Atherosclerosis and Degenerative Diseases: Implausibility and Paradoxical Oxidant Effects; Interexaminer Reliability and Cranial Osteopathy; PC-SPES and Product Adulteration; Commentary: Bioterrorism and the NCCAM: The Selling of Complementary and "Alternative" Medicine; Study Yields No Evidence for Medical Efficacy of Distant Intercessory Prayer: A Follow-up Commentary; Analysis: Faith Healing by Prayer; Correspondence: Background on Banisteriopsis; Book Review: The Medical Advisor, by Time-Life Books |
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| Contents: Original Research: The Use of a Dietary Supplement Combination and an Essential Fatty Acid as an Alternative and Complementary Treatment for Children with Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder; Analysis: Review of the Evidence for the Clinical Efficacy of Human Acupuncture; "Alternative" Medicine: A Review of Studies Supported by Grants Awarded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Stated Goals and Grants of the Office of Alternative Medicine / National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; "Alternative" Medicine Survey Distortions: An Early Critique; Commentary: White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy: A Membership Directory; The Office of Alternative Medicine / National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Should Be Abolished; Notes on James S. Gordon, MD, Chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy; Acupuncture Legislation: What Is the Point?; Correspondence: Anomalous Improvement; Book Review: The Golden Guru, by James S. Gordon, MD |
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| Contents: Original Research: Effects of Banasteriopsis caapi Extract on Parkinson's Disease; Review: Veterinary Acupuncture and Historical Scholarship: Claims for the Antiquity of Acupuncture; Acupuncture Points and Meridians Do Not Exist; Homeopathy and Critical Thinking; Commentary: Convergence and Divergence of Scientific and "Alternative" Medicine: Historical Moments; The Irrational Reformation; Factors that Shape Critical Thinking about "Alternative Medicine"; How We know Whether a Medical Treatment Works - Quality of Evidence; Analysis: How to Investigate Aberrant Practice Practitioners: A Case of Primary Lateral Sclerosis; Aberrant Claims: Magnetism and Copper Bracelets; 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 |
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| Contents: Editorial: State of the Art; PSEUDOSCIENCE AND PSYCHOTHERAPY: Fringe Psychotherapies: The Public At Risk; The Doman-Delacato Patterning Treatment for Brain Damage; Stress Management: Aromatherapy As an Alternative; Analysis: Acupuncture: Another Clinical Trial Fails; Autogenous Vaccine: A Defense against the Bacterial Organism That Causes Cancer; Commentary: The Evidence for Evidence-Based Medicine; Review: Dancing in the Dark, or Sleeping with the Enemy?; Book Review: Lying for Fun and Profit: The Truth about the Media, by Kurt Butler |
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| Contents: Editorial: In Memory of John Renner, MD (1932-2000); From The Editors: White House Commission Stacked against Science; Commentary: Psychic Healing of a Case of Glioblastoma Multiforme in a Three-Month-Old Infant; SYMPOSIUM ON "ALTERNATIVE" PUBLIC HEALTH THREATS: Alternativism and Public Health; Opposition to Immunization: A Pattern of Deception; Opposition to Community Water Flouridation and Connections to the "Alternative Medicine" Movement; Dental Silver-Amalgam Fillings: Are Dentists Poisoning Their Patients?; Multiple Chemical Sensitivities: An Iatrogenically Perpetuated Disorder and Example of the Nocebo Effect; Is the Chiropractic Subluxation Theory a Threat to Public Health?; Correspondence; Book Review: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, by Dean Edell, MD |
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| Contents: Statement by the Council for Scientific Medicine; Editorial: An Irreplaceable Person: In Memory of Thomas Jukes, PhD (1906-1999); Analysis: Medical Claims for Intercessory Prayer Remain Elusive; Are Systemic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Sufficient As Well As Necessary for Assessing the Medical Effectiveness of Prayer?; SPECIAL SECTION: HERBAL MEDICINE: Product Definition Deficiencies in Clinical Studies of Herbal Medicines; Herbal Crisis in Europe: A Review of the Epidemic of Renotoxicity from Chinese Herbal Remedies; Chinese Herbs: Some Things to Remember; Phytopharmaceuticals: Problems, Limitations, and Solutions; Phytopharmaceuticals: Mass Production, Standardization, and Conservation; Original Research: Identification of Cytotoxic Agent in Kombucha Herbal Medicine; Commentary: The Irrational Reformation; Book Reviews: Invasion of the "Gland Grafters"; The Case against Chiropractic; Boosterism without Reason |
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| Contents: Statement by the Council for Scientific Medicine; Editorial: Can Alternative Treatments Induce Immune Surveillance over Cancer in Humans?; Article Reviews: A Historical Approach to U.S. Trends in Alternative Medicine Use; Another Controversial Effort to Establish the Medical Efficacy of Intercessory Prayer; SPECIAL SECTION: POSTMODERNISM AND MEDICINE: Postmodern Medicine; Postmodern Promotion of Alternative Medicine; Living on Borrowed Authority: Postmodernism and Methods of Presentation; Postmodernism, Science, and the Sublime; Healing is Believing: Postmodernism Impacts Nursing; Commentary: Science and Postmodern Criticism |
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| Contents: Statement by the Council for Scientific Medicine; Editorial: A Special Issue; Correspondence: Traditional Chinese Medicine, and more; Cases: How I Learned Not to Believe Carlos Castañpeda; Analysis: Chinese Acupuncture for Heart Surgery Anesthesia; SPECIAL SECTION: PSYCHOLOGY AND "ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE": Social and Judgmental Biases That Make Inert Treatments Seem to Work; The Mischief-Making of Ideomotor Action; Alternative Medicine and the Psychology of Belief; Report: Perception of Conventional Sensory Cues as an Alternative to the Postulated 'Human Energy Field' of Therapeutic Touch Inert Treatments Seem to Work; Article Review: Does the Eisenberg Data Hold Up?; Commentary: Religiosity and Health; The Making of a Complementary Medicine Man |
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| Contents: Statement by the Council for Scientific Medicine; Editorial: On Deciding When Something is Real; In Defense of Science over Pseudoscience in University Education; Correspondence: Prompting the Unproven, and more; Analysis: Bioenergetic Fields; The Fear of Weak Electromagnetic Fields; Magnet Therapy; Acupuncture: A History; Article Review: Does Acupuncture Affect Labor and Delivery?; Commentary: AM Comes to Shadyside Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Exploring Links Between Religion/Spirituality and Health; Book Review: Coyote Medicine by Lewis Mehl-Madrona |
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| Contents: Statement by the Council for Scientific Medicine; Editorial: The Braid of the "Alternative Medicine" Movement; Correspondence: Epidemic of Renal Failure Due to Herbals, and more; Analysis: Nicholas Gonzalez Treatment for Cancer: Gland Extracts, Coffee Enemas, Vitamin Megadoses, and Diets; A Review of the Journal Alternative Therapies; An Examination of the Media Coverage of a Prayer Study-in-Progress; Evaluation of a Study on Homeopathy and Its Accompanying Publicity; Commentary: The Di Bella Controversy: The Universality of Popular Delusion; The Continuing Case of Nicholas Gonzalez; A Critique of an Official UK View of Complementary Medicine; Chiropractic Goes to University; Evaluation of a Study on the Possible Validity of Acupoints; Cases: The Allure of Quackpot Theories; Book Reviews: Healing With Homeopathy by Wayne B. Jonas; The Logic of Medicine by Edmond A. Murphy |
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| Contents: Statement by the Council for Scientific Medicine; Editorial: On Being a Critic; Analysis: Oxygenation Therapy: Unproven Treatments for Cancer and AIDS; Magnetic and Electromagnetic Therapy; Naturopathy; Pharmacology of St. John's Wort; EarthSave's Brochures for Schoolchildren: An Assessment; Report: Therapeutic Touch: Investigation of a Practitioner; Cases: Encounter with a Dubious Cancer Doctor; Commentary: On the National Institute of Drug Abuse Consensus Conference on Acupuncture; Therapeutic Touch: What Could Be the Harm?; Medical Ethics and Alternative Medicine |
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| Contents: Statement by the Council for Scientific Medicine; Editorial: Why a New Alternative Medicine Journal?; Analysis: Is Homeopathy "New Science" or "New Age"?; Therapeutic Touch: Evaluating the "Growing Body of Evidence" Claim; Therapeutic Touch: Tracing Back to Mesmer; Hydrazine Sulfate: Is It an Anticancer Agent?; The Pharmacology of Chelation Therapy; Commentary: Quantum Metaphysics; Criteria of Good Research; Book Review: 8 Weeks to Optimum Health by Andrew Weil |
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