Decontextualized versus lived worlds: critical thoughts on the intersection of evidence, lifeworld, and values

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine : Research on Paradigm, Practice, and Policy
Jeff Flatt

Abstract

Numerous studies and trials are conducted under the evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine (EBCAM) paradigm. Some individuals view the results generated by this approach as symbolic evidential proof of complementary medicine, and as representative of practice. Such evaluations are made even though the ability to capture and reflect clinical reality by the methods used is questioned. The effect of this type of research on complementary medicine researchers and practitioners has received minimal consideration, and this article explores this subject by critically reviewing the literature and theorizing the effects on the lifeworld and values of those embodied by EBCAM. This review accesses the discourse of various disciplines involved with, and commenting on, complementary medicine research. Collected literature is collated within specified limits, subjected to argumentation analysis, and synthesized within a critical theory methodology. Emergent themes are examined, and the effects of EBCAM on holistic researcher and practitioner lifeworld and values are theorized via the colonization framework of critical social theorist Jürgen Habermas. The use of an evidence-based medicine research model to investigate complemen...Continue Reading

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