Product Description: Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Health: A Multicultural Perspective provides a critical analysis of non-allopathic healing practices, including their uses, limitations, and scientific basis. The evidence-based discussion explores complementary, alternative, and integrative health (CAIH) across various cultural and ethnic groups both in the U...read more

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Product Description: The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongside - and sometimes integrates with - conventional medicine, this handbook provides the first major overview of its regulation and professionalization from social science and legal perspectives...read more

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Product Description: Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) has become big business. Alongside the increased consumption of complementary medicine and the swelling numbers of complementary health practitioners has emerged a growing interest in these medicines and therapies from within the ranks of conventional primary health care...read more

Product Description: A Guide to Alternative Medicine and the Digestive System is unique in that it provides answers to many practical clinical questions, all in one comprehensive resource.This single-authored handbook by Dr. Anil Minocha contains content supported by close to a 1,000 scientific citations...read more

Product Description: Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing. This book explores how the increasing proliferation of holistic health methods are intimately connected with changing configurations of selfhood, gender and class.

Alternative therapies, once the province of the hippie counterculture, are now a mainstream phenomenon. But they are more than a medical and economic sensation. At once spiritual and bodily, medical and recreational, they are an enormously popular cultural practice bound up with the pleasureseeking drive of consumer culture as well as with spiritual and neoliberal values.Complementary and Alternative Medicine critically examines this phenomenon which some denounce as the triumph of superstition over reason by asking practitioners themselves what makes these therapies so appealing.Drawing on a wealth of interviews with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Cam) practitioners as well as on the author's longstanding participation in Cam culture, the book provides a much needed look from both the inside and the outside of the Cam phenomenon. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, anthropology, sensory studies and sociology.

Product Description: Leading bioethicists and philosophers examine and debate the question of how the health care system should deal with using complimentary and alternative medicines. The distinguished authorities writing here both defend and criticize alternative medicine, with some arguing that the medical system should change substantially in order to accommodate alternative medicine, and others claiming that virtually all alternative treatments are worthless...read more

Product Description: Consumer text features a broad range of topics, including herbs, vitamins, minerals, diet, manual healing, and alternative treatment methods. Current trends, safety and regulatory issues, insurance coverage, and ACS guidelines for using complementary and alternative methods are also included...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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