Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Reader

by Lee Treweek,Geraldine

• ISBN13: 9780415351584
• ISBN10: 0415351588
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This reader presents a lively and engaging collection of classic, controversial and new readings on CAM. Issues covered throughout the collection are: * Changes in the way CAM is developing and being delivered * Holism and what this concept means to CAM practice * Changes in consumption and the health consumer that have lead to increased interest in CAM * The safety and effectiveness of CAM treatments * How integration is being achieved in contemporary society The book will be essential reading for students of CAM, health studies, nursing, medicine and allied health subjects, as well as medical sociology and health policy. Also for CAM practitioners and other health professionals and policy makers.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Change and development in complementary and alternative medicine	xi
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Tom Heller
Section 1 CAM in context
Introduction	1	(2)
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
The basic concepts of alternative medicine and their impact on our views of health	3	(6)
Stephen Fulder
A taxonomy of unconventional healing practices	9	(17)
Ted J Kaptchuk
David M Eisenberg
Complementary and alternative medicine: socially constructed or evidence-based?	26	(7)
Janet Richardson
Too much medicine? Almost certainly	33	(4)
Ray Moynihan
Richard Smith
Alternative medicine and common errors of reasoning	37	(15)
Barry L Beyerstein
Orthodox medicine or alternative therapy: a perspective British Medical Association Board of Science and Education	52	(3)
Complementary medicine: new approaches to good practice: summary and recommendations British Medical Association	55	(6)
Ethical problems arising in evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine	61	(8)
Edzard Ernst
Michael H Cohen
Julie Stone
The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use among the general population: a systematic review of the literature	69	(20)
Philip Harris
Rebecca Rees
Section 2 Users, practitioners and health beliefs: the healing relationship in CAM
Introduction	87	(2)
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Health care pluralism in the UK	89	(11)
Cecil G Helman
What is distinctive about complementary medicine?	100	(6)
Annie Mitchell
Maggie Cormack
The therapeutic relationship under fire	106	(11)
Merrijoy Kelner
I'm not ill, it's just this back: osteopathic treatment, responsibility and back problems	117	(12)
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Wholeness and health	129	(7)
Fritjof Capra
The fantasy of the whole person and the question of personal blame	136	(9)
Rosalind Coward
Section 3 CAM in different settings
Introduction	143	(2)
Tom Heller
Receiving money for medicine: some tensions and resolutions for community based private complementary therapists	145	(12)
Gavin J Andrews
Elizabeth Peter
Robin Hammond
Small business complementary medicine: a profile of therapists and their pathways to practice	157	(11)
Gavin J Andrews
Robin Hammond
Complementary therapy provision in primary care -- policy considerations based on case studies in practice	168	(10)
Donna Luff
Kate Thomas
Healing in the spiritual marketplace	178	(8)
Marion Bowman
Expanding political opportunities and changing collective identities in the complementary and alternative medicine movement	186	(9)
Melinda Goldner
Lessons on integration from the developing world's experience	195	(7)
Gerard Bodeker
Homoeopathy, hospitals and high society	202	(13)
Phil Nicholls
Section 4 Regulation, professionalisation and education: change and diversity
Introduction	211	(4)
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Quackery	215	(7)
Roy Porter
From charismatic teaching to professional training: the legitimation of knowledge and the creation of trust in homoeopathy and chiropractic	222	(9)
Sarah Cant
Diversity, the individual, and proof of efficacy: complementary and alternative medicine in medical education	231	(10)
Constance M Park
Regulation in complementary and alternative medicine	241	(7)
Simon Y Mills
The implications of the Osteopaths Act	248	(4)
Clive S Standen
Regulating complementary and alternative medicine: the case of acupuncture	252	(8)
Mike Saks
Building a professional community; collective culture in a group of non medically qualified homoeopaths in Britain	260	(9)
Ursula Sharma
Accora the Healer: a case study of deception and fraudulent identity in healing	269	(10)
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Hilary Thomson
Section 5 Evidence and efficacy
Introduction	277	(2)
Hilary Macqueen
Assessing efficacy of complementary medicine: adding qualitative research methods to the `gold standard'	279	(8)
Marja J Verhoef
Ann L. Casebeer
Robert J Hilsden
Evidence-based complementary medicine: rigour, relevance and the swampy lowlands	287	(5)
Janet Richardson
The evidence for or against common complementary therapies	292	(14)
Edzard Ernst
Quality, efficacy and safety of complementary medicines: fashions, facts and the future: efficacy and safety	306	(13)
Joanne Barnes
The crack in the biomedical box: the placebo effect	319	(10)
Zelda Di Blasi
Section 6 CAM in practice: diversity, integrations and development
Introduction	327	(2)
Geraldine Lee-Treweek
Healing minds: what evidence is there that massage or aromatherapy helps people in mental distress?	329	(11)
Jan Wallcraft
Complementary therapies and mental health	340	(11)
Alison Faulkner
Sarah Layzell
Complementary therapies in dementia care	351	(12)
Anne Wiles
Dawn Booker
Sustaining the cocoon: the emotional inoculation produced by complementary therapies in palliative care	363	(10)
Marion Garnett
The empowering nature of Reiki as a complementary therapy	373	(7)
Leslie Nield-Andersen
Ann Ameling
Complementary therapies in maternity care	380	(8)
Lorraine Williams
Working as a healing practitioner and a general practitioner	388	(5)
Sheelagh Donnelly
Journey into Shiatsu	393	(6)
Susan Spurr
Index	399