Voluntary self-regulation of complementary and alternative medicine practitioners.

From: Albany Law Review | Date: December 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

"The urge to regulate is stronger than the sex drive." (1)

I. INTRODUCTION

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been practiced and used in this country continuously since the nineteenth century. (2) All of the forms of care present then are still present today including botanical medicine ("Thomsonians"), health food ("Grahamites"), homeopathy, hydrotherapy, healing touch ("mesmerists"), osteopathy, naturopathy, chiropracty, and Christian Science. (3) In the 1920s and early 1930s, three studies reported CAM usage of thirty-four percent, eighty-seven percent, ...

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