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Health, the individual, and integrated medicine : revisiting an aesthetic of health care / David Aldridge.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 1 online resource (1 volume)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1417500751
  • 9781417500758
  • 1846426448
  • 9781846426445
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Health, the individual, and integrated medicine.DDC classification:
  • 615.5 22
LOC classification:
  • R733 .A434 2004eb
NLM classification:
  • 2004 F-077
  • WB 890
Online resources:
Contents:
Making and taking health care decisions -- Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic -- The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma -- Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum development -- Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research -- Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomized controlled trials -- A community approach to cancer in families -- Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care -- Music therapy and spirituality: a transcendental understanding of suffering -- Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings -- A qualitative research perspective on healing -- The breath in healing -- Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche -- Guidelines for clinical research.
Summary: How do we decide on the most effective way to heal ourselves or our patients? Complementary therapies are a vital part of any integrated approach to health which incorporates specialist and layperson knowledge. In this book, David Aldridge examines cultural understandings of illness and medicines. He provides a critique of orthodox methods used to assess treatment, and advocates a more pluralistic approach to medical research and practice, encompassing the physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of a person's life. To assess medical research in a range of situations, Aldridge.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Making and taking health care decisions -- Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic -- The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma -- Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum development -- Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research -- Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomized controlled trials -- A community approach to cancer in families -- Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care -- Music therapy and spirituality: a transcendental understanding of suffering -- Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings -- A qualitative research perspective on healing -- The breath in healing -- Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche -- Guidelines for clinical research.

How do we decide on the most effective way to heal ourselves or our patients? Complementary therapies are a vital part of any integrated approach to health which incorporates specialist and layperson knowledge. In this book, David Aldridge examines cultural understandings of illness and medicines. He provides a critique of orthodox methods used to assess treatment, and advocates a more pluralistic approach to medical research and practice, encompassing the physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of a person's life. To assess medical research in a range of situations, Aldridge.

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