Perubatan alternatif: Perbezaan antara semakan

 

Perubatan alternatif biasanya dikelompokkan dengan '''perubatan pengiring''' atau '''perubatan bersepadu''', yang, secara umum, merujuk pada campurtangan yang sama apabila digunakan bersama dengan teknik aliran utama,<ref name="whccamp.hhs.gov">{{cite web |title=White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy |url=http://whccamp.hhs.gov/fr2.html |date=March 2002| archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/61C8iiefX | archivedate = 2011-08-25| deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=[[Edzard Ernst|Ernst E.]] |title=Complementary medicine: common misconceptions |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine]] |year=1995 |volume=88 |issue=5 |pages=244–247| pmid = 7636814|pmc=1295191 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Joyce CR |title=Placebo and complementary medicine |journal=[[The Lancet]] |year=1994 |volume=344|issue=8932 |pages=1279–1281 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(94)90757-9}}</ref> di bawah istilah umum '''perubatan mengiring dan alternatif''', atau '''CAM'''.<ref name=ernstinterview>{{cite web |url=http://www.harcourt-international.com/ernst/interview.cfm |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070311015608/http://www.harcourt-international.com/ernst/interview.cfm |publisher=Elsevier Science |title=Interview with [[Edzard Ernst]], editor of ''The Desktop Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine'' |year=2002 |archivedate=2007-03-11}}</ref><ref name=CassilethDeng2004>{{cite journal |author=Cassileth BR, Deng G |title=Complementary and alternative therapies for cancer |journal=[[The Oncologist]] |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=80–9 |year=2004 |pmid=14755017 |doi=10.1634/theoncologist.9-1-80}}</ref> Para pengkritik mengatakan istilah “pelengkap” dan “perubatan alternatif” merupakan ''euphemism'' mengelirukan bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran bidang kuasa perubatan.<ref>Carroll RT. [http://www.skepdic.com/compmed.html "complementary medicine"] at ''The Skeptic's Dictionary''</ref><ref name=APNEJM>Acupuncture Pseudoscience in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science Based Medicine, Steven Novella, [http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6391 Science-Based Medicine » Acupuncture Pseudoscience in the New England Journal of Medicine]</ref><ref name="Credulityabout">Credulity about acupuncture infiltrates the New England Journal of Medicine, Science Based Medicine, David Gorski, [http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6381 Science-Based Medicine » Credulity about acupuncture infiltrates the New England Journal of Medicine]</ref>