Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine : Revisiting an Aesthetic of Health Care.
Title:
Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine : Revisiting an Aesthetic of Health Care.
Author:
Aldridge, David.
ISBN:
9781846426445
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents:
Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Making and Taking Health Care Decisions -- Chapter 2 Lifestyle, Charismatic Ideology and a Praxis Aesthetic -- Chapter 3 The Clinical Assessment of Acupuncture for Asthma -- Chapter 4 Of Ethics and Education: Strategies for Curriculum Development -- Chapter 5 Aesthetics and the Individual in the Practice of Medical Research -- Chapter 6 Clinical Research, the Individual Patient, and the Limits of Randomized Controlled Trials -- Chapter 7 A Community Approach to Cancer in Families -- Chapter 8 Music Therapy References Relating to Cancer and Palliative Care -- Chapter 9 Music Therapy and Spirituality: A Transcendental Understanding of Suffering -- Chapter 10 Prayer and Spiritual Healing in Medical Settings -- Chapter 11 A Qualitative Research Perspective on Healing -- Chapter 12 The Breath in Healing -- Chapter 13 Music Therapy and Neurological Rehabilitation: Recognition and the Performed Body in an Ecological Niche -- Chapter 14 Guidelines for Clinical Research -- References -- Subject index -- Author index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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