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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780341703321

Autore

Aldridge David <1947->

Titolo

Health, the individual, and integrated medicine [[electronic resource] ] : revisiting an aesthetic of health care / / David Aldridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004

ISBN

1-283-90441-1

1-84642-644-8

Edizione

[1st American ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

615.5

Soggetti

Alternative medicine

Integrated delivery of health care

Medical anthropology

Medicine - Research - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



pluralistic approach to medical research and practice, encompassing the physical, psychological, spiritual and social dimensions of a person's life. To assess medical research in a range of situations, Aldridge