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9780415351621

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Structures and Safeguards

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415351621

  • ISBN10:

    0415351626

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-06-02
  • Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

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Summary

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a fascinating and fast-changing area of medicine. This book explores the challenging issues associated with CAM in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people's health. It: provides an overview of social change, consumption and debates arising from the increased public interest in CAM, arguing for and against different classifications discusses how CAM developed in a political and historical context, critically assessing the importance of ethics and values to CAM practice and how these inform what practitioners do analyzes the question of what people want, the changing contested nature of health, and the nature of personal and social factors associated with the use of CAM examines the diversity of settings in which CAM takes place explores the social, political and economic milieu in which CAM is provided and used. The book is one of three core texts for the forthcoming Open University course K221 Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (first presented in February 2005).

Table of Contents

Contributors vi
Acknowledgements x
Introduction xii
Part 1 CAM Organisation: Safety and Standards
1(126)
Knowledge, names, fraud and trust
3(24)
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Education and training in CAM
27(26)
Lorraine Williams
Julie Stone
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Regulation and control
53(22)
Julie Stone
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Political power and professionalisation
75(26)
Mike Saks
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Homeopathy: principles, practice and controversies
101(26)
Phil Nicholls
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Tom Heller
Part 2 Researching CAM
127(130)
A critical look at orthodox medical approaches
129(26)
Tom Heller
Dick Heller
Gavin Yamey
Understanding research
155(36)
Hilary MacQueen
Sheena Murdoch
Andrew Vickers
Researching CAM interventions
191(38)
Tom Heller
Evaluating CAM practice
229(28)
Tom Heller
Dione Hills
Elaine Weatherly-Jones
Index 257

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