Challenging an Uncertainty: Alternative Medicine as a Popular Trend in Kazakhstan
Challenging an uncertainty: alternative medicine as a popular trend in Kazakhstan
Kamila Kadyrova
KIMEP
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Description of Results
Chapter 4: Analysis
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Part A. In 2003 one 6 year old boy was delivered to Kostanay regional hospital. The state of this boy was critical; he was unconscious. It had happened that a native healer gave him some uncertain remedy from the stomach ache. After it, his temperature rose dramatically, then he started to rave and finally he lost consciousness. As the doctors found out, the remedy, which the healer gave to the boy, consisted from 3 components; one of them was extremely dangerous for boy because of personal intolerance to it. If doctors’ did not help him in time, this boy could have become crippled or even died. It is an awful thing when children become victims of unchecked therapies, but let’s look from the other side. Many people have their own experience of marvelous convalescence in cases when even medical practitioners failed to help.
So, if there is such a bottomless abyss between the results that people get from alternative medicine, what actually makes them use it again and again? Let’s see the roots of people’s preference for alternative medicine in this research paper.
Defining alternative medicine is quite difficult. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) defines complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as “a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011, p. 1). With the purpose of understanding what are the attractive points of alternative treatment for people, the whole system of complementary and
Kamila Kadyrova
KIMEP
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Description of Results
Chapter 4: Analysis
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
2
6
11
18
24
26
27
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part A. In 2003 one 6 year old boy was delivered to Kostanay regional hospital. The state of this boy was critical; he was unconscious. It had happened that a native healer gave him some uncertain remedy from the stomach ache. After it, his temperature rose dramatically, then he started to rave and finally he lost consciousness. As the doctors found out, the remedy, which the healer gave to the boy, consisted from 3 components; one of them was extremely dangerous for boy because of personal intolerance to it. If doctors’ did not help him in time, this boy could have become crippled or even died. It is an awful thing when children become victims of unchecked therapies, but let’s look from the other side. Many people have their own experience of marvelous convalescence in cases when even medical practitioners failed to help.
So, if there is such a bottomless abyss between the results that people get from alternative medicine, what actually makes them use it again and again? Let’s see the roots of people’s preference for alternative medicine in this research paper.
Defining alternative medicine is quite difficult. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) defines complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as “a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011, p. 1). With the purpose of understanding what are the attractive points of alternative treatment for people, the whole system of complementary and
Bibliography: Barnes, P.M., Bloom, B. & Nahin, R. L. (2008). Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults and Children: United States, 2007. National Health Statistics Reports, No. 12, 1-24 Brown, S Penkala-Gawecka, D. (2002). Korean medicine in Kazakhstan: ideas, practices and patients. Anthropology & Medicine, 9 (3), 315-336 U.S Zollman, C. & Vickers, A. (1999). Complementary medicine and the patient. British Medical Journal, 319, 1486-1489 Appendix