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COMMENTS
• Each group should be prepared to present a detailed presentation
(10-15 slides with speaker notes) on one CAM (50pts)
• This report should include: a historical account of the advent of
the practice, particularly when and how it appeared in the United
States; descriptions of the ideas shaping disease; definitions and
practices of healing; a status report on the current state of the
practice
• Questions each group should address in its presentation.
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• When did the CAM become popular in the United States and
why at that particular point in time? (What is the social context?
The medical history context?)
• Who were the healers and who were the patients? (Race, class,
gender identities?)
• How did practitioners use the CAM, and what therapies did they
offer? How did the explanations and therapies change over time?
• How were healers trained? and, Have the
procedures changed?
• Did/ or Why did the regular medical profession oppose this
system of practice when it first appeared in the United States?
• What is the contemporary state and status of the practice? What
is the present relationship between the alternative practice and
modern biomedical professionals?
GROUP WEB PAGE CONSTRUCTION (20pts)
Each group will construct an informative resource pages about its
subject.
Pages should tell the history of the alternative system and provide
documents that help to answer the same questions to be addressed in
the class presentation. Each page should include (but should not be
limited to):
• short reading assignments for the class
• images related to the subject links to important sites (with a
critical evaluation of the site’s content).There is a continuation to the instructions