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Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine

Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine

Revisiting an Aesthetic of Health Care

David Aldridge

Paperback: £19.99 / $32.95

2004, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-232-8, BIC 2: MBPC MBNH MQTC

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Foreword. 1. Making and taking health care decisions. 2. Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic. 3. The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma. 4. Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum and development. 5. Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research. 6. Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomised controlled trials. 7. A community approach to cancer in families. 8. Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care. 9. Music therapy and spirituality: A transcendental understanding of suffering. 10. Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings. 11. A qualitative research perspective on healing. 12. The breath in healing. 13. Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: Recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche. 14. Guidelines for Clinical Research. Conclusion. References. Index.

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