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Alternative Medicine - the treatment and prevention of disease by techniques that are regarded by modern Western medicine as scientifically unproven or unorthodox. The term alternative medicine can encompass a wide range of therapies, including chiropractic, homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, meditation, biofeedback, massage therapy, and various "new age" therapies such


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    Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America » Read Now

    by James C. Whorton. 368 pgs.

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    From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton shows in Nature Cures, the recent explosion in alternative medicine actually reflects two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream...
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    Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies » Read Now

    by James S. Gordon. 358 pgs.

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    More than a third of Americans have already begun to explore alternative techniques such as yoga, meditation, nutritional therapies, massage, acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, herbalism, and prayer, but we don't know which approaches to trust, or what accounts for their effectiveness, and our...
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    Private Medicine and Public Health: Profit, Politics, and Prejudice in the American Health Care Enterprise (Chap. 7 "Alternative Health Care Industry") » Read Now

    by Lawrence D. Weiss. 220 pgs.

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    ...Data Weiss, Lawrence David. Private medicine and public health: profit, politics...References, 93 7 Alternative Health Care Industry 95 Brief History of Alternative...
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    Science, Faith, and Alternative Medicine, in Policy Review » Read Now

    by Ronald W. Dworkin. 17 pgs.

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    ...Science, Faith, and Alternative Medicine. by RONALD W. DWORKIN...more than superstition. Alternative medicine is not a recent phenomenon...years. What today is called...
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    Are Physicians Aware of the Risks of Alternative Medicine?, in Journal of Community Health » Read Now

    by Daniel D. Silverstein, Allen D. Spiegel. 17 pgs.

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    ...PHYSICIANS AWARE OF THE RISKS OF ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE? by Daniel D. Silverstein...1998.3 Information about alternative medicine is widely available to the...internet...
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    Complementary Medicine and the Law » Read Now

    by Julie Stone, Joan Matthews. 306 pgs.

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    The growth of complementary medicine over the past decade has been accompanied by calls for greater regulation and for the most part it has been assumed that the regulation of orthodox medicine offers a suitable model for complementary medicine. The result has been confusion over the purpose and...
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    Complementary Herbal and Alternative Drugs in Clinical Practice, in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care » Read Now

    by Susan McCabe. 10 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    ...Complementary and alternative medicine agents (CAMs) PURPOSE...complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) as these agents...and Alternative...Medicine...
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    Trying to Give Ease: Tommie Bass and the Story of Herbal Medicine » Read Now

    by John K. Crellin, Jane Philpott. 340 pgs.

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    ...a few practitioners of alternative medicine. In fact, a noticeable...views were presented as an alternative to orthodox medicine and provided a pastoral...century, and...
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    Acupuncture: A Viable Medical Alternative » Read Now

    by Marie Cargill. 178 pgs.

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    "It will be an eye opener for the public to see that acupuncture is widely practiced and that research in this area is going on . . . all over the world . . . It has been proven many times . . . that acupuncture can work in many cases where conventional medicine has failed." Nelly Tsiving, licensed...
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    Healing Powers and Modernity: Traditional Medicine, Shamanism, and Science in Asian Societies » Read Now

    by Linda H. Connor, Geoffrey Samuel. 283 pgs.

    Connor and Samuel explore the present state of a range of healing traditions in their Asian locales. The peoples examined include relatively remote populations such as the Iban of Sarawak, the Temiar of Malaysia, and the Sasak of Lomboko, as well as rural South Indians and Malays, the people of...
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    African American Alternative Medicine: Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases » Read Now

    by Eric J. Bailey. 159 pgs.

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    The author examines past and present traditional healthcare practices among African Americans from a research-based perspective. A cultural-historical review of the traditional African American alternative healthcare practices provides the framework for understanding current African American...
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    Nurses' Perceptions of Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies, in Journal of Community Health » Read Now

    by Per Gunnar Brolinson, James H. Price, Marcia Ditmyer. 17 pgs.

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    ...care arena, the majority of alternative medicine users do so not because they...M, Kessler RC. Trends in alternative medicine use in the US: 1990-1997...Astin JA. Why...
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    An Introduction to Complementary Medicine » Read Now

    by Terry Robson. 373 pgs.

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    Providing a sound introduction to the range of treatments and philosophies within the field of complementary and alternative medicine, this book offers a systematic explanation of the philosophies and practices that underpin these medical practices. The rise in popularity of complementary medicine...
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    Mosby's Complementary Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach » Read Now

    by Lyn W. Freeman, G. Frank Lawlis. 525 pgs.

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    Mosby's COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE is the only comprehensive book on complementary medicine set up in a true textbook format. It covers the history, philosophy, and mechanisms of complementary medicine and alternative therapies, and includes a thorough review of the clinically controlled...
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    Western Medicine: An Illustrated History (Chap. 17 "Unofficial and Unorthodox Medicine") » Read Now

    by Irvine Loudon. 348 pgs.

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    Covering all periods from Ancient Greece to the present day, this richly illustrated history of medicine offers information and insight on a wide variety of topics. The great milestones of medical history - among them the discovery of the circulation of the blood, vaccination against smallpox, the...
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    The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing » Read Now

    by Thomas H. Lewis. 224 pgs.

    For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the heyok'a ceremony, herbalism, the Sioux Religion, the peyotism of the Native American Church, and other...

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