Therapeutic pluralism
Subtitle: exploring the experiences of cancer patients and professionals
By: Alex Broom & Philip Tovey.
Contributors: Tovey, Philip, 1963-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415398527; 9780415398534
Subjects: Cancer -- Alternative treatment -- Great Britain; Neoplasms -- therapy; Complementary Therapies -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dialectical tension between individuation and depersonalisation in cancer patients' mediation of therapeutic options; title: The role of the Internet in cancer patients' engagement with therapeutic options; title: Integrating CAM: a comparative analysis of hospice versus hospital medicine; title: Oncologists' and specialist cancer nurses' approaches to CAM and their impact on patient action; title: Exploring the temporal dimension in cancer patients' experiences of non-biomedical therapeutics; title: The problematic nature of conflating use and advocacy in CAM integration.