What's New:
Effective November 2007, NESA no longer has an internal Institutional Review Board (IRB). All NESA research reviews will be conducted by an external agency.
NESA, as a co-sponsor, announces a call for papers for the upcoming Society for Acupuncture Research conference.
Recognizing the importance of research in shaping the future of Oriental medicine (OM), the valuable clinical and theoretical insight NESA faculty could provide to inform this research, and a growing interest among NESA faculty in participating in research, NESA established a Faculty Research Program in March of 2000. In 2003, NESA became the first NIH-supported Developmental Center for Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (DCRC) devoted to East Asian Medicine. The overarching goal of our program and DCRC is to facilitate research that meets the highest standards of medical science while maintaining the integrity and honoring the plurality of traditional OM practices. Specific goals of our program are:
- To establish and maintain NESA as a significant contributor to the
field of OM research, actively engaging its faculty and
staff in the scientific evaluation of all branches of OM,
including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, manual therapies,
and meditative exercise.
- To provide faculty and staff opportunities for advanced
training and study through collaborative research and scholarly
exchange with leaders in the fields of both conventional
and complementary medicine.
- To provide opportunities for research for students in
both the current masters programs and an eventual doctoral
program.
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So the second scientific revolution
has abandoned the hidden tenets of the first. Its
model of nature no longer assumes that she must
be causal, continuous, and independent. These assumptions
were idealized from everyday experience, and they
were right, and splendidly successful, during two
centuries when physics worked and measured on the
everyday scale. They have turned out to be false
on the small scale of the atom and on the large
scale of the nebulas, and at least inappropriate
to studies of the living.
- Jacob Bronowski
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