Jon Adams / Philip Tovey (eds.)

Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Nursing and Midwifery

Towards a Critical Social Science
Herausgeber: Adams, Jon; Tovey, Philip

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an innovative study exploring the historical, social, political and cultural facets of integration between complementary and alternative medicine and nursing/midwifery

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780415368476
• ISBN-10: 0415368472
• Artikelnr.: 23259512

Autorenporträt

Jon Adams is Senior Lecturer at the School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia. Philip Tovey is Reader in Health Sociology, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part 1: The Evolution of CAM in Nursing and Midwifery 1. CAM
and Nursing: Changing Boundaries 2. CAM and Contemporary Nursing Theory and
Practice Part 2: CAM Nursing/Midwifery in Intra-Professional Context 3.
Grass-Roots CAM Nursing/Midwifery: Life Process and Professional Action 4.
CAM and the Meaning of Nursing Care 5. Nurses in Alternative Health Care:
Processes of Boundary Re-Configuration Part 3: Inter-Professional Issues in
CAM Nursing/Midwifery 6. CAM, Wellness Nursing and the 'New Public Health'
7. Integration in Inter-Professional Context: CAM Nursing as 'Middle
Ground' 8. The Common Bond between CAM and Nursing: Claiming Autonomy from
the Medical Profession. Postscript