Perspectives on complementary and alternative medicine : a reader /: a reader. ([2019?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Geraldine Lee-Treweek, Tom Heller, Susan Spurr, Hilary MacQueen and Jeanne Katz.
• Editors: Lee-Treweek, Geraldine, 1969-; Heller, Tom; Spurr, Sue; MacQueen, Hilary; Katz, Jeanne
• Contents: 1. The basic concepts of alternative medicine and their impact on our views of health / Stephen Fulder -- 2. A taxonomy of unconventional healing practices / Ted J. Kaptchuk and David M. Eisenberg -- 3. Complementary and alternative medicine : socially constructed or evidence-based? -- Janet Richardson -- 4. Too much medicine? Almost certainly / Ray Moynihan and Richard Smith -- 5. Alternative medicine and common errors of reasoning / Barry L. Beyerstein -- 6. Orthodox medicine or alternative therapy : a perspective / British Medical Association Board of Science and Education -- 7. Complementary medicine : new approaches to good practice : summary and recommendations / British Medical Association -- 8. Ethical problems arising in evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine / Edzard Ernst, Michael H. Cohen and Julie Stone -- 9. The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use among the general population : a systematic review of the literature / Philip Harris and Rebecca Rees -- 10. Health care pluralism in the UK / Cecil G. Helman -- 11. What is distinctive about complementary medicine? / Annie Mitchell and Maggie Cormack -- 12. The therapeutic relationship under fire / Merrijoy Kelner -- 13. I'm not ill, it's just this back : osteopathic treatment, responsibility and back problems / Geraldine Lee-Treweek -- 14. Wholeness and health / Fritjof Capra -- 15. The fantasy of the whole person and the question of personal blame / Rosalind Coward -- 16. Receiving money for medicine : some tensions and resolutions for community based private complementary therapists / Gavin J. Andrews, Elizabeth Peter and Robin Hammond -- 17. Small business complementary medicine : a profile of therapists and their pathways to practice / Gavin J. Andrews and Robin Hammond -- 18. Complementary therapy provision in primary care : policy considerations based on case studies in practice / Donna Luff and Kate Thomas -- 19. Healing in the spiritual marketplace / Marion Bowman -- 20. Expanding political opportunities and changing collective identities in the complementary and alternative medicine movement / Melinda Goldner -- 21. Lessons on integration from the developing world's experience / Gerard Bodeker -- 22. Homoeopathy, hospitals and high society / Phil Nicholls -- 23. Quackery / Roy Porter -- 24. From charismatic teaching to professional training : the legitimation of knowledge and the creation of trust in homoeopathy and chiropractic / Sarah Cant -- 25. Diversity, the individual, and proof of efficacy : complementary and alternative medicine in medical education / Constance M. Park -- 26. Regulation in complementary and alternative medicine / Simon Y. Mills -- 27. The implications of the Osteopaths Act / Clive Standen -- 28. Regulating complementary and alternative medicine : the case of acupuncture / Mike Saks -- 29. Building a professional community ; collective culture in a group of non medically qualified homoeopaths in Britain / Ursula Sharma -- 30. Accora the healer : a case study of deception and fraudulent identity in healing / Geraldine Lee-Treweek and Hilary Thomson -- 31. Assessing efficacy of complementary medicine : adding qualitative research methods to the 'gold standard' / Marja J. Verhoef, Ann L. Casebeer and Robert J. Hilsden -- 32. Evidence-based complementary medicine : rigour, relevance and the swampy lowlands / Janet Richardson -- 33. The evidence for or against common complementary therapies -- 34. Quality, efficacy and safety of complementary medicines : fashions, facts and the future : efficacy and safety / Joanne Barnes -- 35. The crack in the biomedical box : the placebo effect / Zelda Di Blasi -- 36. Healing minds : what evidence is there that massage or aromatherapy helps people in mental distress? / Jan Wallcraft -- 37. Complementary therapies and mental health / Alison Faulkner and Sarah Layzell -- 38. Complementary therapies in dementia care / Anne Wiles and Dawn Booker -- 39. Sustaining the cocoon : the emotional inoculation produced by complementary therapies in palliative care / Marion Garnett -- 40. The empowering nature of Reiki as a complementary therapy / Leslie Nield-Andersen and Ann Ameling -- 41. Complementary therapies in maternity care / Lorraine Williams -- 42. Working as a healing practitioner and a general practitioner / Sheelagh Donnelly -- 43. Journey into Shiatsu / Susan Spurr.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 615.5; Alternative medicine; Médecines parallèles; Alternative medicine; médecine parallèle -- études diverses; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues; HEALTH & FITNESS / Alternative Therapies; MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General; Complementary Therapies; Collected works; Electronic books; Collected Work
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429603846; 0429603843
• Related ISBNs: 9780415351584; 0415351588; 9780415351591; 0415351596
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.