I wonder if the first doctors to abandon leeches were considered to be practicing “alternative medicine.” What about the surgeons who didn’t also cut hair? Did the group of parents who first moved education from the home to a communal school engage in “alternative education”?
I don’t know who first coined the phrase “alternative dispute resolution,” but what a damaging misnomer it is. Attaching the “alternative” label to “dispute resolution” relegates to orphan status the arts and practices of negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Notwithstanding the increased awareness of ADR, there remain strong sentiments among many that “real men don’t mediate.”
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