Health, the individual, and integrated medicine

Aldridge, David, 1947-

Health, the individual, and integrated medicine revisiting an aesthetic of health care / [electronic resource] : David Aldridge. - 1st American ed. - New York ; London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004. - 224 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Alternative medicine.
Integrated delivery of health care.
Medical anthropology.
Medicine--Research--Philosophy.


Electronic books.

R733 / .A434 2004eb

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