Contents
Foreword iii
Traditional Mäori Healing vi
1 Terminology 1
1.1 Choosing a term 1
1.2 Defining the medical paradigm 5
2 Categorisation of Modalities 7
2.1 House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology model 7
2.2 US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
(NCCAM) model 9
2.3 The New Zealand Charter of Health Practitioners model 11
2.4 Which classification system to use? 12
3 The Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Health Model
of Categorisation 13
4 Summary of Conclusions 16
Appendix I: Membership of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary
and Alternative Health 17
Appendix II: Definitions of Key Terms 18
References 19