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Integration, Conversion or Conflict? A Critical Ontology of the Integration of “CAM” into Biomedical Education

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2013-12-16

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Fournier, Cathy

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This thesis explores the ontological content of the integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in biomedical education, through a critical exploration of “CAM" policy related documents from the World Bank, the World Health Organization and Health Canada, as a means of contextualizing "CAM" in biomedical education. It also interrogates curriculum documents from a project that seeks to standardize “CAM” in biomedical education. This thesis suggests that there are ontological parallels to the colonial era conversion of indigenous medicine evoked in the contemporary 'integration' of CAM in biomedical education.

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), Biomedicine, Integrative Medicine, Biomedical Hegemony, Biomedical Education and CAM, Critical Medical Anthropology, Anti-Colonial Theory, Critical Political Economy, Indigenous/Traditional Medicine

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