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Understanding Alternative Medicine (New Health Paths in America) - 9780789009029
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Product Details
Author:
Virginia M Tyler, Lawrence Tyler
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
124
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis (January 7, 2000)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780789009029
ISBN-10:
0789009021
Weight:
7.625oz
Dimensions:
5.8125" x 8.25"
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TAYLORFRANCIS-TayFran_260520050404037-20260520.xml
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TAYLORFRANCIS
List Price:
$54.99
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50
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$52.24
Publisher Identifier:
P-CRC
Discount Code:
H
Pub Discount:
30
Imprint:
Routledge
Country of Origin:
United States
Overview
Understanding Alternative Medicine: New Health Paths in America provides health professionals and educators with insight into the growing use and social acceptance of alternative medicines in the United States today. This book discusses the political, economic, and scientific implications of multicultural medicine in American society and provides you with specific information on the use of alternative medicines in the United States. With this complete and comprehensive guide, you will discover the safety and efficacy of alternative medicines, therapies, and philosophies to offer your patients the best possible care for their ailments.Intelligent and informative, Understanding Alternative Medicine examines several different philosophies that alternative treatments are based on, such as Shamanism, Ayurvedic Medicine, and traditional chinese medicine and discusses some of the negative consequences of these practices on both the plant and animal kingdoms. This essential book will provide you with a variety of medical suggestions to improve your patients’health while examining present issues surrounding alternative medicine, including:
- realizing the environmental impact on endangered plants and animals used as ingredients in traditional and herbal medicines to help you understand the negative effects on the world while balancing the positive effects for the human population
- understanding the economic growth and social acceptance of the alternative health industry and its move into mainstream society
- examining why, according to some doctors’opinions, the United States Food and Drug Administration continues to be unsuccessful in its efforts to properly evaluate the safety and efficacy of alternative medicineThrough this essential book,you will discover how American medicine has diversified among accepted medical practices as well as medical practitioners and that these trends are beginning to change American health care practices and procedures. Understanding Alternative Medicine offers proof on how these changes have influenced the growing availability, awareness, and use of traditional medicines in order to expand your options for patient care and help people live improved and healthier lives.
