Health, the individual, and integrated medicine
Subtitle: revisiting an aesthetic of health care
By: David Aldridge
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Psychology; Philosophy; Research; Patient Care; Esthetics; Alternative medicine; Medicine; Biomedical Research; Integrated delivery of health care; Complementary Therapies; Medical anthropology
Description: 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. He provides a critique of orthodox methods used to assess treatment, and advocates a more pluralistic approach to medical research and practice, encompassing the physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of a person's life. To assess medical research in a range of situations, Aldridge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Making and taking health care decisions; title: Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic; title: The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma; title: Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum development; title: Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research; title: Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomized controlled trials; title: A community approach to cancer in families; title: Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care; title: Music therapy and spirituality: a transcendental understanding of suffering; title: Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings; title: A qualitative research perspective on healing; title: The breath in healing; title: Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche; title: Guidelines for clinical research.