Complementary and alternative medicine : challenge and change /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Harwood Academic,
[2000]
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Table of Contents:
- The culture of fitness and the growth of CAM
- Conceptions of the body in CAM
- Reasons for using CAM
- The therapeutic relationship under fire
- The characteristics of CAM users : a complex picture
- Changes in characteristics of CAM users over time
- Social networks and mass media : the 'diffusion' of CAM
- Partners in illness : who helps when you are sick?
- Assessing the evidence base for CAM
- Rethinking models of health and illness behaviour
- Incorporating symbolic, experiential and social realities into effectiveness research on CAM
- Medical pluralism and the future of CAM
- Professionalization, politics and CAM
- Research as a tool behaviour for integrative health services reform