The Cochrane Collaboration defines complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as a broad domain of healing resources that encompasses all health systems, modalities and practices, and their accompanying theories and beliefs other than those intrinsic to the politically dominant health systems of a particular society or culture in a given historical period.

Conference:

Dr Nicola Gale and Prof Jean McHale (Director, Institute of Medical Law) have been awarded a grant by the Wellcome Trust (www.wellcome.ac.uk) to run a conference entitled: ‘Regulation and professionalization in complementary medicine: historical perspectives and contemporary concerns.’   Also on the conference committee are Jonathan Reinarz, Heather Draper and Eliot Marston

The conference will take place May 5 2011, 9.30am-5pm at Horton Grange, University of Birmingham. For further details please see the Flyer or contact: Nicola Gale