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"Any of the systems of medical diagnosis and treatment differing in the technique from that of the alllopathic practitioner's use of medical therapies suh as drugs and surgery to treat disease and injury. Examples include acupuncture, aromatherapy, aruveda, faith healing, homeopathy, and therapeutic touch." Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions, 8th ed.
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· Consider researching a specific alternative treatments such as acupuncture, holistic medicine, etc.
· Is hypnotism effective in pain relief?
· Discuss the success of using alternative
medicine in treating HIV/AIDS, autism, a particular cancer, etc..
· Can alternative medicine coexist with conventional medicine?
· Discuss the effectiveness of medicine used in a specific culture such as China, India, a specific Native American tribe, etc.
· Should health insurance cover alternative medical therapies?
· Will the destruction of the rain forests have an effect on the discovery of new therapies?
·Do alternative cancer therapies work?
Available at the Reference Desk
CQ Researcher Plus Archive “Homeopathy Debate” 12/19/03
Issues and Controversies "Alternative Medicine" 8/09/02 Opposing Viewpoints: Health Care in America; Medicine; Alternative Medicine (also available in the
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Gale)
Database)
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- CQ Researcher Plus Archive CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue each week, ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science. Forty-four reports produced each year, including four expanded reports. Includes charts, and graphs.
- Issues and Controversies Issues and Controversies offers a wealth of current topics research information, including pro/con discussions of hot issues, newspaper editorials, numerical snapshots of key topics, photos and graphics, and selected historical source documents.
- Opposing Viewpoints Opposing Viewpoints searches viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazine articles and more social issues.
- Academic Search Complete Academic Search Complete provides full-text for more than 4,650 publications, including full-text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
- America's Newspapers America's Newspapers from NewsBank provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 600 U.S. newspapers - all in one easy-to-search database.
- Subject Specific Databases
Statistics
Information Plus: Health and Wellness: (Ref Desk) (also available in the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Database)
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
CDC: Cost of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Cite Your Sources
Eventually, all students have to learn to properly cite their sources for their research. Some classes require MLA style, while others use APA. This page will give you pointers as well as help in creating those "Works Cited" or "References" pages. Remember you can always contact us, if it gets confusing (and it usually does!)
- MLA Update 2009In Summer 2008, the Modern Language Association released its third edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing, which publicly unveiled modifications to MLA Style for the upcoming year.
These changes go into effect in April 2009. - Sample of MLA Work Cited PageFrom Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University
- Citation Builder - NCSUCitation Builder is an interactive web tool designed to assist college and university students in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
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