Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative MedicineThis book explores the challenging issues associated with complementary and alternative medicine in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people's health. Divided clearly into three sections, this book:
Together with its accompanying text, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Structures and Safeguards, it forms the core text for the Open University course K221 Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. |
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Contents
Can complementary and alternative medicine | 33 |
Political and historical perspectives | 59 |
Ethics in complementary and alternative | 83 |
Complementary and alternative medicine | 111 |
People and Complementary | 141 |
Understanding why people use complementary | 173 |
The therapeutic relationship | 205 |
Critical issues in the therapeutic relationship | 231 |
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Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Reader Geraldine Lee-Treweek,Tom Heller,Susan Spurr No preview available - 2005 |
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