LC Call no. NLM Call no. An Evidence-Based Approach gathers and explores available clinical research concerning alternative medicine. Chapters are arranged by broad clinical category such as cardiovascular, psychiatric, or pain. Extensive references are available at the end of each chapter, encouraging readers to examine the research themselves.
Coverage is sketchy and limited to major disorders where clinical research data is available.
Some of the chapters focus on a specific population group. But, in other cases, this approach seems impractical. For example, there is no chapter discussing the use of CAM for AIDS or HIV, but a whole chapter is dedicated to HIV in women. The goals for this book are too ambitious for the length of this work. Many major diseases that use CAM therapies are not included.