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HISTORY AND PROFESSIONAL FORMATION TIMELINE
A Living Chronicle: A Tapestry of People, Events and Institutions
Pizzorno, C. Calabrese, and others. Significant step in institutional adoption of “CAM
Complementary and Alternative Medicine” nomenclature. XX
LEGISLATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Canadian Office of Natural Health Products established in Ottawa, Canada with help of 17-member transition team. Phillip Waddington, ND, Executive Director; Paul Saunders, PhD, ND, member.
Natural Health Products: A New Vision. Publ., Canadian Health Minister. Regarding regulating natural health products through a non-drug directorate agency.
Naturopathic Physicians, 1998 Sunset Review. J. A. Garcia.
Widely used terminology “Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)” is embedded
in enabling language in US federal law for the first time (S. 2440 and in naming a federal agency); marking formal, legal inclusion of
this community of medical and health care professionals and institutions. S. 2440 is entitled: 112 STAT. 2681–387 PUBLIC LAW 105–277— OCT. 21, 1998 TITLE VI—NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. SEC. 601. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. The “CAM” terminology used to describe CAM systems, practices, and products is widely debated before and after this event and continues to evolve. A key trend is to move past what “other” medical and health care systems are not (i.e., “unorthodox,” “unconventional,” or “unscientific”) and refer to these professions as what they are and how they define and name themselves, e.g., as “natural” and/or by discipline or system nomenclature.
For example, because consumers appear to be using non-mainstream health care practices as alternatives to conventional health care, the term “alternative medicine” was widely adopted in the
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United States and Europe in later 1980s. In early 1990’s, \[surveys\] found that people were using two systems of health care - mainstream and alternative - simultaneously, to “complement” one another. As a result, the term “complementary medicine” was widely adopted not long afterwards to describe systems of health care and individual therapies that people used as adjuncts to their conventional health care. A later survey (Astin) found that, although many unconventional therapies were being used to complement mainstream medical care, some were being used instead of conventional medical care. The term “complementary” continues as partially descriptive of the health care system and marketplace. To acknowledge this dichotomy, Congress adopted the phrase “complementary and alternative medicine” and applies it to the National Institutes of Health’s National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), when the Office of Alternative Medicine was elevated to
the status of a coordinating research “Center” in 1999. “ (WHCCAM Report 2002; “A review of the incorporation of complementary and alternative medicine by mainstream physicians.” Astin JA, Marie A, Pelletier KR, Hansen E, Haskell WL. Archives of Internal Medicine, 1998.)
HERITAGE AND KNOWLEDGE BASE
Healing Mountain Publishing established by Gary Piscopo, ND, and Eric Yarnell, ND. Includes text on Lust’s philosophy, integrates early naturopathic body of knowledge in publications. XX
Natural Therapies: The Politics and the Passion. Judy Jacka, ND.
The Integrator for the Business of Alternative Medicine
founded and led by John Weeks, publisher;
later (2006) becomes the Integrator Blog News
and Reports. Unique voice begins to chronicle, encourage, celebrate and critique emerging industry of complementary and alternative medicine, integrative medicine, across stakeholders including businesses, academic institutions,
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