Healing, Hype or Harm?

A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2008
Imprint Academic (Verlag)
978-1-84540-118-4 (ISBN)

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The scientists, academics and practitioners writing this book are not 'against' complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), but they are very much 'for' evidence-based medicine and single standards. They aim to counter-balance the many uncritical books on CAM and to stimulate intelligent, well-informed public debate. TOPICS INCLUDE: What is CAM? Why is it so popular? Patient choice; Reclaiming compassion; Teaching CAM at university; Research on CAM; CAM in court; Ethics and CAM; Politics and CAM; Homeopathy in context; Concepts of holism in medicine; Placebo, deceit and CAM; Healing but not curing; CAM and the media.

Professor Ernst qualified as a physician in Germany where he also completed his MD and PhD theses. He was Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PMR) at Hannover Medical School (Germany) and Head of the PMR Department at the University of Vienna (Austria). He came to the University of Exeter in 1993 to establish the first Chair in Complementary Medicine. Since 2012, he is Emeritus Professor.

Introduction: 1. What is CAM?, 2 Why is CAM so popular; General issues: 1 Evidence in healthcare - what it is, and how we get it, 2 Reclaiming compassion, 3 Teaching CAM at university level, 4 Healing but not curing: alternative medical therapies should be considered part of New Age spirituality, 5 Research on CAM: the importance and frailty of impartiality, 6 An amateur's view of the CAM scene, CAM in court; Specific issues: 1 Ethics and CAM, 2 Politics and CAM, 3 Integrated medicine?, 4 Homeopathy in context, 5 Chiropractic: Science, religion or political movement?, 6 Concepts of holism in orthodox and alternative medicine, 7 Vitalism is dead: long live vitalism, 8 Placebo, deceit and CAM, 9 CAM and the media, 10 Patient choice.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2008
Reihe/Serie	Societas
Vorwort	Nick Ross
Verlagsort	Exeter
Sprache	englisch
Maße	134 x 205 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde
ISBN-10	1-84540-118-2 / 1845401182
ISBN-13	978-1-84540-118-4 / 9781845401184
Zustand	Neuware