Perspectives on complementary and alternative medicines / editors, Ian Olver, Monica Robotin.

Would you use complementary and alternative medicines (CAMS)? Well, research has shown that up to three quarters of patients with cancer may at least supplement their treatment with such therapies, spending as much on CAMS as conventional drugs. How do you decide? This book provides a full range of...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Olver, Ian N., Robotin, Monica C.
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Language:English
Published: London : Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific, ©2012.
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505 0 0 |t Complementary and alternative medicines: the introductory perspective --  |t Beyond the classification of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM): towards a systematic approach to understanding CAM --  |t Complementary and alternative medicine used by patients with cancer: evidence for efficacy and safety --  |t The regulation of complementary and alternative medicine --  |t Perspectives on Chinese medicine in complementary and alternative medicine --  |t Disentangling the evidence: the efficacy of meditation in people with cancer --  |t Should spirituality and prayer be part of complementary therapies? --  |t From traditional medicines to drug discovery --  |t Creating an integrative oncology centre: the SolarisCare experience --  |t The emergence of new consumerism in health-care: the empowered health consumer and the role of complementary and alternative medicine --  |t Interaction between complementary and alternative medicines and conventional medicines --  |t Australian doctors and complementary medicine: don't ask, don't tell and don't know --  |t Cancer, primary care and complementary therapies --  |t Complementary and alternative medicine: the perspective of a medical oncologist --  |t Complementary and alternative (or unproven) therapies: perspectives of a surgeon --  |t Mind over medicine: revealing the blame game --  |t Barriers to conduction complementary and alternative medicine clinical trials --  |t Teaching complementary and alternative medicine to medical students --  |t The consumer experience: case studies of complementary therapy use among people diagnosed with cancer --  |t Evaluating complementary and alternative medicine --  |t Complementary and alternative medicine: the perspective of a cancer patient --  |t Complementary and alternative medicine use by adult cancer patients: an overview. 
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