Title Methodologies for effectively assessing complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) : research tools and techniques / edited by Mark J. Langweiler and Peter W. McCarthy ; foreword by Kenneth A. Leight

Published London, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Singing Dragon, 2015 ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations Contents Foreword: Embracing the Spirit of CAM; PREFACE; 1. Blind Men and Elephants: Attempting to Capture CAM in anEnlightenment Box; 2. At the Boundaries of Integrated General Practice; 3. The Pillars of Proof: Safety, Efficacy, Quality and the Construction of a Traditional Medicine/Complementary Alternative Medicine Policy Discourse; 4. Health Psychology and InterpretativePhenomenological Analysis; 5. Using Psychosocial Models and Methodsto Evaluate Complementary and Alternative Medicine; 6. Issues in Spirituality Research in the Biomedical Context 7. Traditional Chinese Medicine: Challenges for Research8. Researching Chinese Herbal Medicine; 9. Clinical Research Evidence in Homeopathy; 10. Medicinal Plants: From Laboratory to Clinical Trial; 11. Research into the Clinical Linkage betweenVisceral Dysfunction and Somatic Symptomatology; 12. Manual Medicine: Past and Future; 13. Craniosacral Therapy; 14. Assessing Āyuverda, Mapping the Woods or Counting the Trees Need and Approach; 15. Methodological Challenges and Research Design in Research Study of Qigong Therapies; 16. Research Methodology for Tai Chi Chuan 17. Yoga: A Review of the ResearchABOUT THE AUTHORS; INDEX Summary Examining the methods and criteria for assessing Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), this book highlights how CAM research must be treated differently to research in conventional medicine. Experts from a wide range of CAM modalities provide background to the therapies and suggest the most effective research methodology for each Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters Notes Print version record Subject Alternative medicine. Outcome assessment (Medical care) Complementary Therapies Outcome Assessment, Health Care Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture. MEDICAL -- Pharmacology. MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. Outcome assessment (Medical care) Alternative medicine Form Electronic book Author Langweiler, Mark J., editor. McCarthy, Peter W., editor. Leight, Kenneth A., author of introduction, etc ISBN 9780857011978 0857011979

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