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• Title:Healing, hype or harm? : a critical analysis of complementary or alternative medicine / edited by Edzard Ernst.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Ernst, E. (Edzard)
  
• Published/Created:Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Societas, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB890 .H43 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB890 .H43 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Alternative medicine.
  
• Description:viii, 178 p. ; 21 cm.
  
• Series:Societas (Imprint Academic (Firm))
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1845401182 (paper)
  9781845401184 (paper)
  
• Contents:Foreword / Nick Ross
  1. Introduction
  What is Complementary and Alternative Medicine? / Barbara Wider and Kate Boddy
  Why is CAM So Popular? / Stephane Lejeune
  2. General issues
  Evidence in Healthcare: What it is, and how we get it / Leslie B. Rose
  Reclaiming Compassion / Michael Fitzpatrick
  Alternative Medicine in UK Universities / David Colquhoun
  Healing but not Curing: Alternative Medical Therapies as Valid New Age Spiritual Healing Practices / Bruce G. Charlton
  Research on Complementary or Alternative Medicine: The Importance and Frailty of Impartiality / Asbjorn Hrobjartsson
  Amateur's View of the CAM Scene / James Randi
  CAM in Court / John Garrow
  3. Specific issues
  Ethics and Complemen tary or Alternative Medicine / Michael Baum and Edzard Ernst
  CAM and Politics / Leslie B. Rose and Edzard Ernst
  Integrated Medicine? / Edzard Ernst
  Homeopathy in Context / Gustav V. R. Born
  Chiro practic: Science, Religion or Political Movement? / Terry Polevoy
  Concepts of Holism in Orthodox and Alternative Medicine / Michael Baum
  Vitalism and other Pseudoscience in Alternative Medicine: The Retreat from Science / Peter H. Canter
  Placebo and Other Non-specific Effects: An Important Issue in CAM / Edzard Ernst
  Patient Choice / Hazel Thornton.