Healing, Hype or Harm?

Professor Ernst qualified as a physician in Germany where he also completed his MD and PhD theses. He was Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at Hannover Medical School (Germany) and Head of the PMR Department at the University of Vienna (Austria). He came to the University of Exeter in 1993 to establish the first Chair in Complementary Medicine. Since 2012, he is Emeritus Professor.

Introduction: 1. What is CAM?, 2 Why is CAM so popular; General issues: 1 Evidence in healthcare - what it is, and how we get it, 2 Reclaiming compassion, 3 Teaching CAM at university level, 4 Healing but not curing: alternative medical therapies should be considered part of New Age spirituality, 5 Research on CAM: the importance and frailty of impartiality, 6 An amateur's view of the CAM scene, CAM in court; Specific issues: 1 Ethics and CAM, 2 Politics and CAM, 3 Integrated medicine?, 4 Homeopathy in context, 5 Chiropractic: Science, religion or political movement?, 6 Concepts of holism in orthodox and alternative medicine, 7 Vitalism is dead: long live vitalism, 8 Placebo, deceit and CAM, 9 CAM and the media, 10 Patient choice.