COMPLEMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE MEDICIN (HUM 272)

Term: 2025 Summer Term

Faculty

Christine Anne TownsendShow MyInfo popup for Christine Anne Townsend

Christine.Townsend2@methodistcollege.edu

Graduate Excelsior College MSED/BSN 

Graduate Atlantic City Community College AD RN

 

Description

This course begins with a major focus on an introduction to the field of complementary and alternative medicine,
discussing the history, characteristics, translation and issues in alternative and integrative medicine. These concepts
serve as a foundation for the course of descriptions in the development and key concepts of the most prevalent
complementary and alternative therapies being used in the United States. In addition to providing comprehensive
overviews of the traditional medicines of China, India, Africa and native America, this course takes broader approaches
which have tremendous value in understanding the aspects of medical practice and healthcare that are compelled, or
chosen, and those that represent true alternatives on a global basis. American medicine is an eclectic pursuit where a
number of competing ideas and approachesthrive. The studentstaking this course must be willing to explore any ethical
approaches ortreatmentsthat have been proven to work in theirfut