Health, the individual, and integrated medicine : revisiting an aesthetic of health care / / David Aldridge
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| Autore: |
Aldridge David <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Health, the individual, and integrated medicine : revisiting an aesthetic of health care / / David Aldridge
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; London, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st American ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 615.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Alternative medicine |
| Integrated delivery of health care | |
| Medical anthropology | |
| Medicine - Research - Philosophy | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Health, the individual, and integrated medicine |
| ISBN: | 1-283-90441-1 |
| 1-84642-644-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825590103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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