Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy

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Autor(a) principal: Barros,Nelson Filice de
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Fiuza,Alessandra Rodrigues
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
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Resumo: In recent decades an important social movement related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine has been identified worldwide. In Brazil, although homeopathy was recognized as a specialist medical area in 1980, few medical schools offer courses related to it. In a previous study, 176 resident doctors at the University of Campinas Medical School were interviewed and 86 (49%) rejected homeopathy as a subject in the core medical curriculum. Thus, this qualitative study was conducted to understand their reasons for refusing. 20 residents from 15 different specialist areas were interviewed. Very few of them admitted to a lack of knowledge for making a judgment about homeopathy; none of them made a conscientious objection to it; and the majority demonstrated prejudice, affirming that there is not enough scientific evidence to support homeopathy, defending their position based on personal opinion, limited clinical practice and on information circulated in the mass media. Finally, resident doctors’ prejudices against homeopathy can be extended to practices other than allopathic medicine.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy
title Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy
spellingShingle Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy
Barros,Nelson Filice de
Evidence-Based Medicine
Complementary Therapies
Homeopathy
Prejudice
title_short Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy
title_full Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy
title_fullStr Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy
title_full_unstemmed Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy
title_sort Evidence-based medicine and prejudice-based medicine: the case of homeopathy
author Barros,Nelson Filice de
author_facet Barros,Nelson Filice de
Fiuza,Alessandra Rodrigues
author_role author
author2 Fiuza,Alessandra Rodrigues
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Barros,Nelson Filice de
Fiuza,Alessandra Rodrigues
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Evidence-Based Medicine
Complementary Therapies
Homeopathy
Prejudice
topic Evidence-Based Medicine
Complementary Therapies
Homeopathy
Prejudice
description In recent decades an important social movement related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine has been identified worldwide. In Brazil, although homeopathy was recognized as a specialist medical area in 1980, few medical schools offer courses related to it. In a previous study, 176 resident doctors at the University of Campinas Medical School were interviewed and 86 (49%) rejected homeopathy as a subject in the core medical curriculum. Thus, this qualitative study was conducted to understand their reasons for refusing. 20 residents from 15 different specialist areas were interviewed. Very few of them admitted to a lack of knowledge for making a judgment about homeopathy; none of them made a conscientious objection to it; and the majority demonstrated prejudice, affirming that there is not enough scientific evidence to support homeopathy, defending their position based on personal opinion, limited clinical practice and on information circulated in the mass media. Finally, resident doctors’ prejudices against homeopathy can be extended to practices other than allopathic medicine.
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