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Integrative medicine (view source)
Revision as of 18:32, 29 September 2021
, 18:32, 29 September 2021Some more information, partially from a recent german book about IM
'''Integrative medicine''' describes a medical direction "that reaffirms the importance of the practitioner-patient relationship. It focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, health care professionals, and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing"<ref name=":0" /> as articulated by the [[Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine]] in 2004.
'''Integrative medicine''' describes a medical direction "that reaffirms the importance of the practitioner-patient relationship. It focuses on the whole person, is informed by [[evidence]], and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, health care professionals, and disciplines to achieve optimal [[health]] and [[healing]]"<ref name=":0" /> as articulated by the [[Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine]] in 2004.
Integrative medicine makes use of approaches from [[Conventional medicine|conventional]] and [[complementary medicine]]. The concept came up in the [[Wikipedia:US|US]] in the late 1940s. In the [[Wikipedia:Germany|german]] sphere it was used from 1990.<ref>{{Cite book|editor-first=Benno|editor-last=Brinkhaus|editor-first2=Tobias|editor-last2=Esch|title=Integrative Medizin und Gesundheit|ISBN=978-3-95466-422-1|publisher=Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft|language=de|date=2021|location=Berlin|trans-title=Integrative medicine and health|chapter=Was ist integrative Medizin?|trans-chapter=What is integrative medicine?|first=Benno|last=Brinkhaus|first2=Tobias|last2=Esch}}</ref>
Compared to the concepts [[alternative medicine]] and [[complementary medicine]] it focuses on integration with conventional medicine. The wording alternative medicine describes approaches used ''instead'' of conventional medicine. Complementary medicine pictures a [[complementarity]] of approaches. Integrative medicine uses scientific methods to evaluate complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies and is open to a dialog with concepts from non-conventional systems.
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