UID:
almafu_9959228503802883
Format:
1 online resource (296 p.)
Content:
Examining the methods and criteria for assessing Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), this book highlights how CAM research must be treated differently to research in conventional medicine. Experts from a wide range of CAM modalities provide background to the therapies and suggest the most effective research methodology for each.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Blind men and elephants : attempting to capture CAM in an enlightenment box / Paul Kadetz -- At the boundaries of integrated general practice / Peter Herbert -- Pillars of proof : safety, efficacy, quality and the construction of TM/CAM policy decisions / Paul Kadetz -- Issues in spirituality research in the biomedical context / Landis M.F. Vance -- Using psychosocial models and methods to evaluate complementary medicine / Philip Harris and Katie Thirlaway -- Health psychology and interpretative phenomenological analysis / Megan A. Arroll -- Traditional Chinese medicine : challenges for research / Fan Qu and Nicola Robinson -- Researching Chinese herbal medicine / Andrew Flower -- Clinical research evidence in homeopathy / Robert T. Mathie -- Medicinal plants : from laboratory to clinical trial / Conti Sefora, Vexler Akiva, Edry-Botzer Liat, and Lev-Ari Shahar -- Research into the clinical linkage between visceral dysfunction and somatic symptomology / Peter W. McCarthy -- Manual medicine : past and future / Mark J. Langweiler -- Craniosacral therapy / Mariann Sisco -- Assessing Ayurveda, mapping the woods or counting the trees : need and approach / Narendra S. Bhatt -- Methodological challenges and research design in research studies of qigong therapy / Kevin W. Chen -- Research methodology for tai chi chuan / B. Roberts, R.Song, S. Ahn, and P. Lam -- Yoga - a review of the research / Alison Trewhela.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84819-251-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85701-197-9
Language:
English
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