Health, the individual, and integrated medicine : revisiting an aesthetic of health care / David Aldridge.
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. H...
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London ; New York :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2004.
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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.