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김명자 ( Kim Myung-Ja ) - 가톨릭대학교 간호대학
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Abstract
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This article provided key information that helps us clarify the concepts of CAM and offered a prospect for a desirable relationship between hospice care and CAM. The term, complementary and alternative therapy/medicine, is a composit word of "complement" and "alternative": while the former implies a supplement for something deficient, the latter has the meaning of choice from two or more possibilities beyond the existing organizations or institutes. In this context, we can understand the following expressions such as "alternative," "unorthodox," "unofficial," and "non-traditional" as indicating curing therapies and medicines that the mass media and the established medical science do not recognize their curing effectiveness. When people encounter health problems, they want to find someone who treat them as human beings and can understand their deeper demand for more truthful human relationships. Especially for the patients with chronic diseases who are worn out of the limit of the established medicines and thus suffer from their increasing medical costs, CAMs often can be their alternative or final resorts. To the extent that CMA understands a patient as a being of bio-psycho-socio-spirit, it shares its theoretical assumptions with nursing science, which has a holistic approach toward humans. Especially, hospice care, as a core part of nursing practices, has special interests in CAMs because it pays attention to the patient’s suffering as a holistic human experience that goes beyond the narrow understanding of the existing medical science about the suffering. Although CAMs have problems such as their unproven curing mechanism and arbitrary issuing of professional certificates, they have strong potentials both for nursing science and for hospice practices. By showing the limits of the existing medical sciences and the potentials in CAMs, this article contributed to the possibility of nursing science and hospice practices to exist as strong alternatives to the established medical science.
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KeyWords
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보완 대체요법, 호스피스
Complementary Alternative, Medicine(CAM), Hospice
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원문 및 링크아웃 정보
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등재저널 정보
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