In recent years, complementary and alternative medicine (often referred to as CAM in the literature) has grown tremendously in both popularity and economic importance. It is now recognized that about one third of the population of industrialized countries has had some experience with CAM. The new medical industry has generated its own field of adherents, practitioners, opponents, lobbyists, counterlobbyists, and regulations. Originally, CAM was regarded as antiestablishment, and the struggle between CAM practitioners and medical doctors has filled volumes of medical, legal, and popular scholarship. In recent years, however, the view of CAM as antiestablishment has changed. It is not the purpose of this book to address the validity of.
