Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Special Interest Group (SIG)

Medical Library Association (MLA)
Please join us for the 2009 MLA CAM SIG Meeting
Sunday, May 17 2:30 - 3:30
Convention Center Room 303A
 
Attend "Fusing Culture and Community to Improve Health Literacy" a
program co-sponsored by the CAM SIG (see program for time and location)

Visit the CAMSIG wiki to view selected CAM information sources

What is complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)?

CAM encompases a large group of therapeutic and diagnostic disciplines that are not usually taught or used in Western or US medical schools or hospitals and exist primarily outside mainstream health care institutions. Also referred to as Alternative Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) or Integrative Medicine, it includes a large number of practices and systems of health care that, for a variety of cultural, social, economic, or scientific reasons, have not been adopted by mainstream Western medicine. Learn more about CAM ...

Complementary Medicine SIG Mission

  • SIG Business Meeting Notes

    • SIG listserv/electronic mailing list

    The SIG listserv recently moved to the MLA server. Members who asked to be transferred from the previous listserv have been added. New subscribers, click on the following link.
    SIG listserv/electronic mailing list

  • CAM Information Resources

  • Activities and Projects of our SIG Members

    • Officers

    Co-Conveners:
  • 2006 -- 2007 Ruthann Gildea Butler Hospital, Providence Rhode Island
  • 2006 -- 2007 Marianna Lapidus Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston

  • 2005 -- 2006 Julia Whelan, Harvard Medical School, Boston
  • 2005 -- 2006 Marilyn Rosen, University of Rochester Medical College, Rochester NY
  • 2004-- 2005 Julia Whelan Mass. General Hospital, Boston
  • 2004-- 2005 Marilyn Rosen, University of Rochester Medical College, Rochester, NY
  • Webmaster and Listserv Manager:Julia Whelan Harvard Medical School, Boston
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