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UNINA9910780341703321 |
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Autore |
Aldridge David <1947-> |
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Titolo |
Health, the individual, and integrated medicine [[electronic resource] ] : revisiting an aesthetic of health care / / David Aldridge |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York ; ; London, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-90441-1 |
1-84642-644-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st American ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Alternative medicine |
Integrated delivery of health care |
Medical anthropology |
Medicine - Research - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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