Health, the individual, and integrated medicine revisiting an aesthetic of health care

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. H...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Aldridge, David, 1947- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2004.
Edición:1st American ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798122906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.