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Healing, hype or harm? : a critical analysis of complementary or alternative medicine / edited by Edzard Ernst.
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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)
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Published/Created:Exeter, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Societas, ©2008.
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WB890 .H43 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WB890 .H43 2008
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Alternative medicine.
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Description:viii, 178 p. ; 21 cm.
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Series:Societas (Imprint Academic (Firm))
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:1845401182 (paper)
9781845401184 (paper)
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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.