In other instances whole techniques in CAM rest on the philosophy of one person, such as Rudolf Steiner's movement-based therapy 'eurhythmy'. □ Other training revolves around the trainee working 'one-toone' with the CAM trainer using a ...
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) – as knowledge, philosophy and practice – is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social developments.
With medicine's reductionism, a disease is considered scientifically understood when its molecular basis has been ... Despite its great advances, Scheurich (2003) states that biomedical practice has become a 'fairly positivistic and ...
BIOMEDICAL. ETHICS. REVIEWS. Edited by Lois Snyder Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ethics, the Patient, ... Ethics Reviews • 1985 Biomedical Ethics Reviews • 1984 Biomedical Ethics Reviews • 1983 BIOMEDICAL E T H I C S R E V.
This text brings together for the first time a wide range of leading North American and European social scientists to identify who uses CAM, why they use it, and how they find out about it.
This book presents a practical introduction and is a reference source for all the major complementary and alternative medicines. Complementary medical treatments are now increasingly popular and the public demand...
This book is valuable reading for higher-level undergraduate and postgraduate social science students, including those in psychology, sociology, anthropology, health sciences and related disciplines.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, sensory studies and sociology.
It further suggests how regulatory structures might develop to support a comprehensive, holistic, and balanced approach to health, one that permits integration of orthodox medicine with complementary and alternative medicine, while ...
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Part of Bloomsbury's Q&A Health Guides series, this book examines a wide variety of forms of CAM popular in the 21st century.
"This book is a critical reference source of the latest research findings on the application of complementary and alternative medicine in the prevention, treatment, and cures for numerous diseases.
This text brings together for the first time a wide range of leading North American and European social scientists to identify who uses CAM, why they use it, and how they find out about it.
This book addresses the “for or against” debate about CAM by establishing acceptable methods for combining complementary and alternative medicine modalities with conventional medicine.