| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Making and taking health care decisions -- Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic -- The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma -- Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum development -- Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research -- Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomized controlled trials -- A community approach to cancer in families -- Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care -- Music therapy and spirituality: a transcendental understanding of suffering -- Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings -- A qualitative research perspective on healing -- The breath in healing -- Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche -- Guidelines for clinical research. |
| Summary |
How do we decide on the most effective way to heal ourselves or our patients? Complementary therapies are a vital part of any integrated approach to health which incorporates specialist and layperson knowledge. In this book, David Aldridge examines cultural understandings of illness and medicines. He provides a critique of orthodox methods used to assess treatment, and advocates a more pluralistic approach to medical research and practice, encompassing the physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of a person's life. To assess medical research in a range of situations, Aldridge. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Alternative medicine.
|
|
Alternative medicine. |
|
Integrated delivery of health care.
|
|
Integrated delivery of health care. |
|
Medical anthropology.
|
|
Medical anthropology. |
|
Medicine -- Research -- Philosophy.
|
|
Medicine -- Research -- Philosophy. |
|
Medicine -- Research. |
|
Biomedical Research. |
|
Complementary Therapies. |
|
Esthetics -- psychology. |
|
Patient Care -- psychology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Aldridge, David, 1947- Health, the individual, and integrated medicine. 1st American ed. London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004 1843102323 (DLC) 2004000479 (OCoLC)54034664 |
| ISBN |
1417500751 (electronic book) |
|
9781417500758 (electronic book) |
|
1846426448 |
|
9781846426445 |
|
