Complementary and alternative medicine in nursing and midwifery
Subtitle: towards a critical social science
By: edited by Jon Adams and Philip Tovey.
Contributors: Adams, Jon, 1971-; Tovey, Philip, 1963-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415368469; 9780415368476
Subjects: Holistic nursing; Midwifery; Alternative medicine; Complementary Therapies -- nursing; Holistic Nursing -- methods; Midwifery -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: CAM integration in inter-professional context: nursing, midwifery and medicine in Canada / Ivy L. Bourgeault and Kristine A. Hirschkorn; title: The emerging role of alternative midwifery within the wider socio-political sphere: a focus upon alternative birth care providers and their relationship with conventional medicine / Paaige K. Turner; title: "Snake oil peddling": CAM and the occupational status of doctors and nurses / Peter Morrall; title: The authentication of CAM in nursing: an examination of historic referencing in selected nursing journals / Philip Tovey and Jon Adams; title: CAM, nursing and the meanings of care / Kahryn Hughes; title: Nurses and midwives in alternative health care: comparative processes of boundary re-configuration in Israel / Judith T. Shuval and Sky E. Gross; title: "Latent" and "realised" risk cultures: woman-centred midwifery and CAM / Karen Lane; title: CAM, holistic wellness nursing and the new public health / Emily Hansen.