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An American Medical Association editorial critiques the field of complementary and alternative medicine.

1998

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In the latter half of the 1990s, 80 articles and 18 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from the perspective of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

This leads the author of an editorial in JAMA to point to the ongoing struggle over how to categorize and recognize different forms of care. This results in a power struggle over what "proof" of efficacy looks like and what can be called medical care.