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Duchy Trachtenberg, MSW

Duchy Trachtenberg is chair of the APHA Special Primary Interest Group on Alternative and Complementary Health Practices.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Duchy Trachtenberg, MSW, To Create (Options in Health Care and Education) Inc, 11212 Empire Ln, North Bethesda, MD 20852 (e-mail: duchy@erols.com).

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	INTRODUCTION

 
In 1994, Jennifer Jacobs, MD, MPH, contacted the national office of the American Public Health Association (APHA) about procedures to start a new organizational component of the association and to schedule time for an organizational business meeting at the 1994 annual meeting. The result was a new Special Primary Interest Group (SPIG) that, after much discussion at the annual meeting, was eventually named Alternative and Complementary Health Practices (A. Trachtenberg, oral communication, 2002). The term "health practices" was chosen to reflect a neutral stance on whether such practices might be therapeutic, preventive, or even harmful.

At the 1994 meeting, about . . . [Full Text]

	ALTERNATIVE IN THEIR ORIGIN

 

	COMPLEMENTARY IN THEIR USE

 

	CAVEAT EMPTOR

 

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