Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A ReaderGeraldine Lee Treweek, Tom Heller, Julie Stone, Hilary MacQueen, Jeanne Katz Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is an emerging and increasingly popular group of treatments, therapies and philosophies of health and wellbeing. It is a fascinating and fast-changing area of social life, which also poses an interesting challenge to current healthcare delivery and policy making. This reader presents a lively and engaging collection of classic, controversial and new readings on CAM and covers issues including:
The text provides insight into many of the current and complex issues surrounding CAM, and will appeal to everyone who is concerned with, or who has an interest in, complementary and alternative healthcare. The book will be essential reading for students of CAM, health studies, nursing, medicine and allied health subjects, as well as medical sociology and modern health policy. |
Contents
socially constructed | |
Too much medicine? Almost certainly | |
a perspective | |
Ethical problems arising in evidencebased complementary | |
and alternative medicine | |
Index | |
Homoeopathy hospitals and high society | |
Regulation in complementary and alternative medicine | |
Building a professional community collective culture in | |
Introduction | |
The evidence for or against common complementary | |
the placebo effect | |
what evidence is there that massage or aromatherapy helps people in mental distress? | |
Complementary therapies and mental health | |
Introduction | |
What is distinctive about complementary medicine? | |
responsibility and back problems | |
Wholeness and health | |
The fantasy of the whole person and the question of personal | |
Introduction | |
therapists and their pathways to practice | |
Expanding political opportunities and changing collective | |
Complementary therapies in dementia care | |
the emotional inoculation produced by complementary therapies in palliative care | |
The empowering nature of Reiki as a complementary therapy | |
Complementary therapies in maternity care | |
Working as a healing practitioner and a general practitioner | |
Journey into Shiatsu | |
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Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Reader Geraldine Lee-Treweek No preview available - 2005 |
Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Reader Geraldine Lee-Treweek No preview available - 2005 |