Special Interest Groups: CAM/IM
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Integrative Medicine (IM) Group - Statement of Purpose
The Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Integrative Medicine (IM) special interest group of the Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) was organized to encourage the anthropological study of CAM and IM as emergent socio-medical phenomena having global ramifications in the 21st century. Members of this special interest group recognize that CAM/IM is a contemporary example of medical pluralism, influenced by processes of globalization and hybridization, scientization and commodification. CAM/IM is a global phenomenon and needs to be studied as such.
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