Trick or Treatment?: Alternative Medicine on Trial pot

... a trial is focused on one treatment for one ailment. However, the trial took place while Hamilton was serving in the Peninsular War in Portugal, where battlefield conditions did not afford ... contains only 5 litres of blood, so a significant fraction was being bled from Washington at each session. Dr Craik did not seem concerned. He per- formed venesection again in the afternoon,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... comple- mentary medicine is the practitioner–patient relationship. Alternative experts spend far longer on consultations than orthodox doctors. An initial session can easily be one and a half hours long, ... features a personal account from someone who had an intractable condition that conven- tional medicine was unable to treat and found relief only from some form of complementary m...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... process along. CAM as traditional CAM medicines are often claimed to have a long history of healing or links and connections with allegedly older ideas of medicine and health. Some forms of ... and organisations have a preference for (and tend to use) the terms alternative or ‘complementary’. For instance, alternative implies separation or a complete difference Perspectives on...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... (d) Information on other services, and single items: (a) Written information; (b) Information on CDs or tape/ video; (c) Satisfaction with the amount of information; (d) Desire for more information; ... years. Links ClinicalTrials.gov http://www.ClinicalTrials.gov National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship http:// www.canceradvocacy.org CONSORT recommendations for reporting on trials...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... ther- apy, alternative medicine, organ transplantation, mental health, and more. x SERIES FOREWORD PREFACE Alternative medicine is a term that causes confusion for most people. What is alternative medicine? ... as an organizational tool for presenting this information. NCCAM is the regulatory arm charged with the evaluation of comple- mentary and alternative medicine for the Uni...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:20

... interpretations of that individual or group. The emic and etic positions are poles of a continuum and your project may draw on both perspectives. For further elaboration on this see the section on the ... will recognise situations or cases that are much more of a struggle, for example interprofessional relationships or managing complex cases. Focusing either on what is going wel...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:20

... the source of a new moral order—restoring society once more to a condition of healthy equilibrium. For Durkheim, therefore, the emergence of occupational corporations with a broader territorial basis ... the more theoretically refined, if ahistorical, functionalist perspective on the professions that constitutes the second major strand of the taxonomic approach has largely managed to avoid....

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:20

... negative formations to enter and that creates a disease in the respective organ. Therefore disease is basically a manifestation of negative formations of energy. For example anger or a continuous ... turn secretes specific hormones. When hormones in the blood reach their desired levels, the hypothalamus and pituitary stop secretion of the corresponding stimulating hormone to that gland....

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 16:20

... pp. 31-70. World Health Organization. WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2002-2005. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2002 (WHO/EDM/TRM/2002.1). World Health Organization Centre for Health Development. ... Kobe: WHO Centre for Health Development, 2001. World Health Organization Centre for Health Development. Global Informa- tion on Traditional Medicine/ Complementary and Alternative...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21