Montbriand M J
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
Oncol Nurs Forum. 1993 Sep;20(8):1195-201.
Patients with cancer who choose alternate therapies often use limited sources of information from lay literature to influence their therapy decisions. The biomedical assessment of these alternate therapies usually is not made available to patients in the lay literature; therefore, patients' true freedom of choice must be questioned. This paper discusses alternate therapies in light of two recent ethnographic studies that examined the alternate-care beliefs and practices chosen by hospital patients in Canadian prairie cities. The alternate cancer therapies that patients have chosen are presented along with the biomedical perspective of these therapies. The patients' own descriptions of their searches for cures are included, and implications for nursing are provided.
选择替代疗法的癌症患者通常利用来自通俗文献的有限信息来源来影响他们的治疗决策。通俗文献中通常不会向患者提供这些替代疗法的生物医学评估；因此，患者真正的选择自由值得质疑。本文根据最近两项人种志研究来讨论替代疗法，这两项研究考察了加拿大草原城市医院患者所选择的替代护理理念和做法。文中呈现了患者选择的替代癌症疗法以及这些疗法的生物医学观点。还纳入了患者自身对其寻求治愈方法的描述，并提供了对护理工作的启示。
