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Alternative Medicine: Some healthy comment

Lutheran Church of Australia
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Alternative Medicine
Traditional Medicine
illnesses
Christians
Herbal Medicine
GE Subjects
Religious ethics
Methods of ethics
Theological ethics
Philosophical ethics
Bioethics
Medical ethics
Health ethics
Christian denominations
Lutheran
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The human being
Practical theology and theological education
Training of church leaders
Ministerial and pastoral training
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Church and Ecumenical Statements on Bioethics and Biotechnology
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"We see the health insurance company’s advertisement on TV — a patient lies face-down on a table while a man chants as he slaps together two fish over the patient — and we smile at this over-the-top expression of Alternative Medicine (AM)." This presentation does not seek to embark on debate. Rather, it seeks to offer brief comment and reminder on realities that need to be borne in mind as opinions are formed and decisions undertaken.2 The stimulus to what follows was a phonecall to the LCA’s Commission on Social and Bioethical Questions, the caller seeking opinion on Iridology. The Commission considered that some comment on AM might be healthy for the LCA.
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2000-05
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