Educational Opportunities in Integrative Medicine The A-to-Z Healing Arts Guide and Professional Resource Directory

by Wengell, Douglas Las; Gabriel, Nathen; Perlman, Adam

• ISBN13: 9780977655243
• ISBN10: 0977655245
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-01
• Publisher: The Hunter Press

Summary

This all-in-one, up-to-date career and professional reference provides a comprehensive survey of integrative, alternative and complementary medicine therapies, their study and practice, for students as well as holistic practitioners. It covers the 11 major medical licenses including natural and allopathic medicine, acupuncture, chiropractic, body and mind therapies and nursing and 50 non-degree modalities such as ayurveda, herbal medicine, midwifery, biofeedback and yoga training. Modality history, philosophy, basic techniques and methods of each discipline are surveyed, along with career and training opportunities, licensure guidelines and salary information. With over 2,500 entries, it also features continuing education and postgraduate studies, conference and retreat centers, online resources and social networks, associations and research institutes, and major periodicals and publications. This book is a must-have desk resource for career seekers, students, holistic-minded healers and anyone interested in seeking out integrative medicine techniques and practitioners for themselves.

Author Biography

Douglas "Las" Wengell, MBA, is the author of The Common Boundary Graduate Education Guide. He has consulted for the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Preventive Medicine Research Institute founded by Dean Ornish, MD. The founder and CEO of Know Your Source and the founder of the Association for Integrity in Medicine, he aspires to provide practitioners better and greener professional products while advocating for the advancement of integrative medicine. He lives in Burlington, Vermont. Nathen Gabriel, ND, is in private practice in San Diego, California. He lives in San Diego. Adam Perlman, MD, MPH is the executive director of the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, where he is a professor of medicine, and vice-chair of the Consortium of Health Centers of Integrated Medicine. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.