Health, the individual, and integrated medicine

revisiting an aesthetic of health care

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Health, the individual, and integrated medicine

revisiting an aesthetic of health care

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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.

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Health, the individual, and integrated medicine: revisiting an aesthetic of health care
2004, Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic access restricted to subscribers.

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Electronic data. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004.

System requirements for online version: netLibrary eBook Reader (for off-line reading) ; Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 or higher ; Pentium 100, 32 MB RAM, 20MB free disk space ; not available for WebTV, Macintosh, Unix or Linux.

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London, New York

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615.5
Library of Congress
R733 .A434 2004eb

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[electronic resource] :
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1 v.

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OL25566683M
Internet Archive
healthindividual00aldr
ISBN 10
1417500751
OCLC/WorldCat
54768746

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