Reshaping herbal medicine : knowledge, education, and professional culture /
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New York :
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : reshaping herbal medicine : the context / Catherine O'Sullivan
- Sect. 1. Knowledge, education and professional culture
- Ch. 1. Determining professional identity : an exploration of the factors that characterize the nature of a profession / Catherine O'Sullivan
- Ch. 2. Professional education and practitioner identity / Catherine O'Sullivan
- Sect. 2. The traditions of herbal medicine
- Ch. 3. Chinese herbal medicine : the history and context to statutory self-regulation / Nick Lampert
- Ch. 4. A brief history of traditional Tibetan medicine and its introduction to the United Kingdom / Katia Holmes and Brion Sweeney
- Ch. 5. The development of integrated medicine with reference to the history of Ayurvedic medicine / Charles Cunningham
- Ch. 6. Western herbal medicine
- gender, culture and orthodoxy / Peter Jackson-Main
- Ch. 7. The relationship of classical Greek medicine to contemporary Western herbalism : an exploration of the idea of 'holism' / Victoria Pitman
- Sect. 3. Problems with knowledge, education and culture in the development of the herbal medicine profession
- Ch. 8. Patient safety and practitioner identity : the move towards statutory self-regulation / R. Michael Pittilo
- Ch. 9. Herbs and herbalists : professional identity and the protection of practice / Michael McIntyre
- Ch. 10. Culture and knowledge in the development of traditional Chinese medicine / Nick Lampert
- Ch. 11. Knowledge, skills and competence : an exploration of the education and professional formation of herbalists / Alison Denham
- Ch. 12. Knowledge and myths of knowledge in the 'science' of herbal medicine / Peter Conway.