Alternative Medicine Panel

Alternative medicine is a political term; what is considered alternative shifts over time. Conflicts and commonalities between conventional and alternative medicine will be examined, along with cultural constraints on rational integration of mainstream and complementaty medicine.Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman is the author of Alternative Medicine: What Works and co-author of the National Women's Health Network's The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy. Judy Norsigian is the co-author of Our Bodies, Ourselves and the forthcoming Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era(May 2005).