Routledge handbook of complementary and alternative medicine: perspectives from social science and law / edited by Nicola K. Gale and Jean V. McHale.
| Other author | Gale, Nicola K. |
| Other author | McHale, Jean V. (Jean Vanessa), 1965- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2015. |
| Description | xvi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Credo Reference Academic Core |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Handbook of complementary and alternative medicine |
| Series | Routledge handbooks |
| Contents | Limits and liberties : CAM, regulation and the medical consumer in historical perspective / Roberta Bivins -- Power and professionalisation in CAM : a sociological approach / Mike Saks -- Legal frameworks, professional regulation, and CAM practice : perspectives from the UK / Jean McHale -- Developing naturopathy in interwar Britain / Jane Adams -- Practising ayurveda in the UK : simplification, modification, hyphenation, and hybridisation / Romila Santosh -- Shamanism and safety : ancient practices and modern issues / Alexander Alich -- The "knowledgeable doer" : nurse and midwife integration of complementary and alternative medicine in NHS hospitals / Sarah Cant and Peter Watts -- The nexus between the social and the medical : how can we understand the proliferation of complementary and alternative medicine for enhancing fertility and treating infertility? / Karen Willis and Jo Ann Rayner -- |
| Contents | Making CAM auditable : technologies of assurance in CAM practice today / Ayo Walberg -- The harm principle and liability for CAM practice : a comparative analysis of Canadian and United States health freedom laws / Irehobhude O. Iyioha -- Risk and regulation : CAM products, practitioners, and the state : perspectives on "risk" and "protection of the public" in the Australian media / Monique Lewis -- Traditional medicine and the law in Kenya / John Harrington -- Regulation of complementary medicines in Australia : influences and policy drivers / Michael Dodson -- Intuitive spiritual medicine : negotiating incommensurability / Ruth Barcan -- Traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture practitioners and the Canadian health care system : the role of the state in creating the necessary vacancies / S. Welsh and Heather Boon -- Aspirations, integration, and the politics of regulation in the UK, past and future / Julie Stone -- |
| Contents | CAM and conventional medicine in Switzerland : divided in theory, united in practice / Helene Martin and Jerome Debons -- Patient choice and professional regulation : how patients choose CAM practitioners / Felicity Bishop -- (Re) articulating identities through learning space : training for massage and reflexology / Emma Wainwright and Elodie Marende -- Research evidence and clinical practice in homeopathy / Morag Heirs -- Towards a learning profession : adapting clinical governance for complementary and alternative medicine / Jane Wilkinson and Nicola Gale -- The relation between the advancement of CAM knowledge and the regulation of biomedical research / Marie-Andree Jacob. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014035996 |
| ISBN | 9780415818940 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 041581894X (hbk) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |