Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)
Contributors: Edwin L. Cooper (Editor); Nobuo Yamaguchi (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: September 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780306482885
Subjects: Complementary Medicine; Medical; Consumer Health; Healing; Neuroscience; Medical / Neuroscience; Alternative Medicine; Complementary Therapies; Congresses; Medicine, Chinese; Medicine, Chinese Traditional
First sentence: Recent excessive commercialization is particularly confusing for patients and doctors who seek remedies for heretofore undefined symptoms.
Description: This volume is the proceedings of an international symposium that examined the newest parameters in alternative and complementary medicine, thus covering a rapidly growing field of medicine that has strong advocates as well as strong opponents. Topics include both basic research and clinical applications, allowing the text to present high quality, peer reviewed, chapter style contributions that dispel some of the pseudoscience and myth surrounding alternative and complimentary medicine.