Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Reader

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ISBN: 9780415351591 | 0415351596
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Copyright: 4/30/2005

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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.

Introduction Change and development in complementary and alternative medicine

GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK AND TOM HELLER

SECTION 1 CAM in context

Introduction

(86)

GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK

1 The basic concepts of alternative medicine and their impact on our views of health

(6)

STEPHEN FULDER

2 A taxonomy of unconventional healing practices

(17)

TED J KAPTCHUK AND DAVID M EISENBERG

3 Complementary and alternative medicine: socially constructed or evidence-based?

(7)

JANET RICHARDSON

4 Too much medicine? Almost certainly

(4)

RAY MOYNIHAN AND RICHARD SMITH

5 Alternative medicine and common errors of reasoning

(15)

BARRY L BEYERSTEIN

6 Orthodox medicine or alternative therapy: a perspective

(3)

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION BOARD OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

7 Complementary medicine: new approaches to good practice: summary and recommendations

(6)

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

8 Ethical problems arising in evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine

(8)

EDZARD ERNST, MICHAEL H COHEN AND JULIE STONE

9 The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use among the general population: a systematic review of the literature

PHILIP HARRIS AND REBECCA REES

SECTION 2 Users, practitioners and health beliefs: the healing relationship in CAM

Introduction

(2)

GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK

10 Health care pluralism in the UK

(11)

CECIL G HELMAN

11 What is distinctive about complementary medicine?

100

(6)

ANNIE MITCHELL AND MAGGIE CORMACK

12 The therapeutic relationship under fire

106

(11)

MERRIJOY KELNER

13 I'm not ill, it's just this back: osteopathic treatment, responsibility and back problems

117

(12)

GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK

14 Wholeness and health

129

(7)

FRITJOF CAPRA

15 The fantasy of the whole person and the question of personal blame

136

(7)

ROSALIND COWARD

SECTION 3 CAM in different settings

Introduction

143

(2)

TOM HELLER

16 Receiving money for medicine: some tensions and resolutions for community based private complementary therapists

145

(12)

GAVIN J ANDREWS, ELIZABETH PETER AND ROBIN HAMMOND

17 Small business complementary medicine: a profile of therapists and their pathways to practice

157

(11)

GAVIN J ANDREWS AND ROBIN HAMMOND

18 Complementary therapy provision in primary care - policy considerations based on case studies in practice

168

(10)

DONNA LUFF AND KATE THOMAS

19 Healing in the spiritual marketplace

178

(8)

MARION BOWMAN

20 Expanding political opportunities and changing collective identities in the complementary and alternative medicine movement

186

(9)

MELINDA GOLDNER

21 Lessons on integration from the developing world's experience

195

(7)

GERARD BODEKER

22 Homoeopathy, hospitals and high society

202

(9)

PHIL NICHOLLS

SECTION 4 Regulation, professionalisation and education: change and diversity

Introduction

211

(4)

GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK

23 Quackery

215

(7)

ROY PORTER

24 From charismatic teaching to professional training: the legitimation of knowledge and the creation of trust in homoeopathy and chiropractic

222

(9)

SARAH CANT

25 Diversity, the individual, and proof of efficacy: complementary and alternative medicine in medical education

231

(10)

CONSTANCE M PARK

26 Regulation in complementary and alternative medicine

241

(7)

SIMON Y MILLS

27 The implications of the Osteopaths Act

248

(4)

CLIVE S STANDEN

28 Regulating complementary and alternative medicine: the case of acupuncture

252

(8)

MIKE SAKS

29 Building a professional community; collective culture in a group of non medically qualified homoeopaths in Britain

260

(9)

URSULA SHARMA

30 Accora the Healer: a case study of deception and fraudulent identity in healing

269

(8)

GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK AND HILARY THOMSON

SECTION 5 Evidence and efficacy

Introduction

277

(2)

HILARY MACQUEEN

31 Assessing efficacy of complementary medicine: adding qualitative research methods to the 'gold standard'

279

(8)

MARJA J VERHOEF, ANN L CASEBEER AND ROBERT J HILSDEN

32 Evidence-based complementary medicine: rigour, relevance and the swampy lowlands

287

(5)

JANET RICHARDSON

33 The evidence for or against common complementary therapies

292

(14)

EDZARD ERNST

34 Quality, efficacy and safety of complementary medicines: fashions, facts and the future: efficacy and safety

306

(13)

JOANNE BARNES

35 The crack in the biomedical box: the placebo effect

319

(8)

ZELDA DI BLASI

SECTION 6 CAM in practice: diversity, integrations and development

Introduction

327

(2)

GERALDINE LEE-TREWEEK

36 Healing minds: what evidence is there that massage or aromatherapy helps people in mental distress?

329

(11)

JAN WALLCRAFT

37 Complementary therapies and mental health

340

(11)

ALISON FAULKNER AND SARAH LAYZELL

38 Complementary therapies in dementia care

351

(12)

ANNE WILES AND DAWN BOOKER

39 Sustaining the cocoon: the emotional inoculation produced by complementary therapies in palliative care

363

(10)

MARION GARNETT

40 The empowering nature of Reiki as a complementary therapy

373

(7)

LESLIE NIELD-ANDERSEN AND ANN AMELING

41 Complementary therapies in maternity care

380

(8)

LORRAINE WILLIAMS

42 Working as a healing practitioner and a general practitioner

388

(5)

SHEELAGH DONNELLY

43 Journey into Shiatsu

393

(6)

SUSAN SPURR

Index

399

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