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Health, the individual, and integrated medicine : revisiting an aesthetic of health care /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aldridge, David, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.
Edición:1st American ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.