ABSTRACT
Is the growth and popularity of complementary and alternative medicine a flight from science? Are thousands of people turning their lower back pains on modern high-technology medicine, perhaps the greatest achievement of the twentieth century, because of ignorance and disillusionment? Are these seekers after new, different (and unproven) treatments naive (or sophisticated) followers of the new relativistic and postmodern philosophy of our age? Or are the millions who dabble in complementary medicine simply ‘shopping’ for a good deal, being intelligent and educated consumers of better care?
