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200 10$aHealth, the individual, and integrated medicine$b[electronic resource] $erevisiting an aesthetic of health care /$fDavid Aldridge
205   $a1st American ed.
210   $aNew York ;$aLondon $cJessica Kingsley Publishers$d2004
215   $a1 online resource (225 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-4175-0075-1 
311   $a1-84310-232-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aMaking 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.
330   $aHow 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 
606   $aAlternative medicine
606   $aIntegrated delivery of health care
606   $aMedical anthropology
606   $aMedicine$xResearch$xPhilosophy
615  0$aAlternative medicine.
615  0$aIntegrated delivery of health care.
615  0$aMedical anthropology.
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