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Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered

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Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered is a book that belongs in your veterinary library. If you are a veterinarian wondering if you should incorporate complementary and alternative veterinary medicine (CAVM) into your practice, if you have recently hired an associate eager to try such things as acupuncture or homeopathy, or if you have clients asking you about chiropractic, herbal, or magnetic field therapy for their pets, you’ll want to understand the history, science and ethics behind such therapies...

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Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered is a book that belongs in your veterinary library. If you are a veterinarian wondering if you should incorporate complementary and alternative veterinary medicine (CAVM) into your practice, if you have recently hired an associate eager to try such things as acupuncture or homeopathy, or if you have clients asking you about chiropractic, herbal, or magnetic field therapy for their pets, you’ll want to understand the history, science and ethics behind such therapies. The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) recognizes the growing interest in CAVM, and encourages the critical examination of these therapies using the scientific method. Following the AVMA’s lead on this subject, Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine Considered thoroughly examines a variety of CAVM therapies and asks important questions regarding alternative treatments. For example, is acupuncture effective in pain relief? What is homeopathy? What is the history behind chiropractic? What does the research say (and not say) about various CAVM modalities? And, just as importantly, what are the ethical and regulatory considerations concerning such therapies? This book has the answers to those questions. 257 p.

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Authors expertises affiliations

  • David W. Rame. DVM. American Association of Equine Practitioners.
  • Bernard E. Rolli. University Distinguished Professor, Professor of philosophy, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Animal Sciences, University Bioethicist. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (USA).
  • Publication date (digital version): 2017-01 – Iowa State Press.

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5 May 2018

Search for books on alternative therapies and you’ll find a swag of books religiously devoted telling believers how clever they are. This book, however, is a rare example of an genuine investigation into the topic. It is readable, fascinating, well-founded and provides a much needed counter balance to the glossy volumes of false hope that exist.

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Steve
5 May 2018

I worked for a “homeopathic” veterinarian and watched animals get worse or die as a result of her presecribed “treatments”. Homeopathy is junk science and junk medicine and SHOULD have no part in AVMA-sanctioned veterinary medicine.

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Alsia K. Ase
5 May 2018

I highly recommend this book to anyone who might be considering using “alternative” therapies on their animals and to veterinarians in general. Dr. Ramey discusses the historical development of scientific medicine and the development and resurgence of unproven and implausible treatments. Don’t let the proponents of “alternative”, “integrative” or “complementary” treatments fool you. There is really only medicine for which we have evidence and plausibility, and alternatives that are at best unproven and at worst dangerous quackery. Can scientific medicine be improved? Yes, and Dr. Ramey will be the first to admit it, but all of the advances medicine has made in the last 200 years have been due to science, not one or another forms of imaginative nonsense.

Kudos to Dr. Ramey for writing this clear, concise analysis of this subject.

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