Dear Colleagues,
If any of you have a response for Charles I should be grateful if you
would respond to him directly.
All good wishes,
Olive
Olive Goddard
Centre and Editorial Manager
Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Department of Primary Health Care
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Dear Mrs Goddard,
I am an Anthropology student at the
University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA, where I have been undertaking a
special
study of Native American Indian medicine practices among the Navajo
tribe.
I have been casting around for some way of making a comparison (never
an
easy thing in anthropology) between the level of certainty the Navajo
attribute
to their traditional ways -- which is absolute certainty -- compared
to that
attributed to our own science based medicine.
Could you point me towards any papers in journals I could access, or
you
could email to me, that would highlight the deficit between the wide
acceptance
of some treatments among surgeons and physicians, compared to the level
of
evidence as to whether they work or not?
Charles Langley
