Question:
The New York Academy of Medicine Section on Historical Medicine announces thefourth talk in its 2003-2004 lecture series:

James C. Whorton, Ph.D., University of Washington School of Medicine"From Cultism to CAM: Alternative Medicine in the Twentieth Century"Wednesday, January 21, 2003, 6:00 PM, with a reception beginning at 5:30 PM

The recent growth of interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)represents a dramatic reversal of the medical profession's attitude towardunorthodox approaches to therapy. Through virtually the entire twentiethcentury, in fact, alternative medicine was scorned as "medical cultism."This talk will examine the basis for medicine's dismissal of alternativepractitioners as cultists, and trace the transformation of alternativemedicine's image and status from the 1890s to the present.

James C. Whorton is the author of "Nature Cures: The History of AlternativeMedicine in America," published in 2002 by Oxford University Press. He is aProfessor of History in the Department of Medical History and Ethics,University of Washington School of Medicine. Professor Whorton has writtenmany journal articles and four books, including "Before Silent Spring:Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America" (1975), and "Inner Hygiene:Constipation and the Pursuit of Health in Modern Society" (2000).

Answer: I read a nice quote re "alternative medicine" the other day.

Im paraphrasing ....."there is no alternative medicine - there is medicinewhich is proven to work and those that have not been proven to work"

Im sure no one would refuse to accept something if found to be effective -through testing.