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1、如有侵权,请联系网站删除,仅供学习与交流C4T2P2 alternative medicine in Australia【精品文档】第 4 页ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIAThe first students to study alternative medicine at university level in Australia began their four-year, full-time course at the University of Technology, Sydney, in early 1994. Their course cover
2、ed, among other therapies, acupuncture. The theory they learnt is based on the traditional Chinese explanation of this ancient healing art: that it can regulate the flow of Qi or energy through pathways in the body. This course reflects how far some alternative therapies have come in their struggle
3、for acceptance by the medical establishment.Australia has been unusual in the Western world in having a very conservative attitude to natural or alternative therapies, according to Dr Paul Laver, a lecturer in Public Health at the University of Sydney. Weve had a tradition of doctors being fairly po
4、werful and I guess they are pretty loath to allow any pretenders to their position to come into it. In many other industrialized countries, orthodox and alternative medicines have worked hand in glove for years. In Europe, only orthodox doctors can prescribe herbal medicine. In Germany, plant remedi
5、es account for 10% of the national turnover of pharmaceutical. Americans made more visits to alternative therapist than to orthodox doctors in 1990, and each year they spend about $US 12 billion on the therapies that have not been scientifically tested.Disenchantment with orthodox medicine has seen
6、the popularity of alternative therapies in Australia climb steadily during the past 20 years. In a 1983 national health survey, 1.9% of people said they had contacted a chiropractor, naturopath, osteopath, acupuncturist or herbalist in the two weeks prior to the survey. By 1990, this figure had rise
7、n to 2.6% of the population. The 550,000 consultations with alternative therapists reported in the 1990 survey represented about an eighth of the total number of consultations with medically qualified personnel covered by the survey, according to Dr Laver and colleagues writing in the Australian Jou
8、rnal of Public Health in 1993. A better educated and less accepting public has become disillusion with the experts in general and increasingly skeptical about science and empirically based knowledge, they said. The high standing of professionals, including doctors, has been eroded as a consequence.R
9、ather than resisting or criticizing this trend, increasing numbers of Australian doctors, particularly younger ones, are forming group practices with alternative therapists or taking courses themselves, particularly in acupuncture and herbalism. Part of the incentive was financial, Dr Laver said. Th
10、e bottom line is that most general practitioners are business people. If they see potential clientele going elsewhere, they might want to be able to offer a similar service.In 1993, Dr Laver and his colleagues published a survey of 289 Sydney people who attended eight alternative therapists practice
11、s in Sydney. These practices offered a wide range of alternative therapies from 25 therapists. Those surveyed had experience chronic illnesses, for which orthodox medicine had been able to provide little relief. They commented that they liked the holistic approach of their alternative therapists and
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