David Aldridge

Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine

Revisiting an Aesthetic of Health Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Complementary therapies are a vital part of any integrated approach to health which includes specialist and layman knowledge. He provides a critique of methods used to assess treatment, and advocates a more pluralistic approach to medical research and practice, looking at physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of a person's life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 163mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781843102328
• ISBN-10: 1843102323
• Artikelnr.: 21698823

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. 1. Making and taking health care decisions. 2. Lifestyle,
charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic. 3. The clinical assessment of
acupuncture for asthma. 4. Of ethics and education: strategies for
curriculum and development. 5. Aesthetics and the individual in the
practice of medical research. 6. Clinical research, the individual patient,
and the limits of randomised controlled trials. 7. A community approach to
cancer in families. 8. Music therapy references relating to cancer and
palliative care. 9. Music therapy and spirituality: A transcendental
understanding of suffering. 10. Prayer and spiritual healing in medical
settings. 11. A qualitative research perspective on healing. 12. The breath
in healing. 13. Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: Recognition
and the performed body in an ecological niche. 14. Guidelines for Clinical
Research. Conclusion. References. Index.