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The place of the university in the provision of CAM education

Similia Vol 24 No 1 – June 2012

Authors: Kate Chatfield, Hazel Partington & Jean Duckworth

Abstract

Recent attacks on the teaching of Complementary and Alternative Medicines (CAM) in Australian universities have prompted us to reflect on our experience as lecturers in homeopathy at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in the UK. Homeopathy in the UK has undergone similar criticisms from sceptics but homeopathy is thriving here at UCLan, albeit in a different guise. Instead of training people to become homeopaths we are now working with existing practitioners, from all over the world, who work together to increase the research and knowledge base of homeopathy. In this article we reflect upon the history and context of CAM therapies in UK universities; we consider the place of universities in society and the place of CAM therapies in universities; and we describe our current work within UCLan’s masters degree courses for CAM practitioners by e-learning.

Keywords: CAM, therapies, homœopathy, homeopathy, Magna Charta Universitatum, sceptics, university education.

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