TY - BOOK AU - Gale,Nicola AU - McHale,Jean V. ED - Credo Reference (Firm), TI - Routledge handbook of complementary and alternative medicine: perspectives from social science and law SN - 9781785392870 AV - R733 .R684 2015 U1 - 615.5 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, England, New York, New York PB - Routledge KW - Alternative medicine KW - Complementary Therapies KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Internationality KW - Medicine, Traditional KW - Risk Management N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Limits and liberties : CAM, regulation and the medical consumer in historical perspective / Roberta Bivins -- Power and professionalisation in CAM : a sociological approach / Mike Saks -- Legal frameworks, professional regulation, and CAM practice : perspectives from the UK / Jean McHale -- Developing naturopathy in interwar Britain / Jane Adams -- Practising ayurveda in the UK : simplification, modification, hyphenation, and hybridisation / Romila Santosh -- Shamanism and safety : ancient practices and modern issues / Alexander Alich -- The "knowledgeable doer" : nurse and midwife integration of complementary and alternative medicine in NHS hospitals / Sarah Cant and Peter Watts -- The nexus between the social and the medical : how can we understand the proliferation of complementary and alternative medicine for enhancing fertility and treating infertility? / Karen Willis and Jo Ann Rayner --; Making CAM auditable : technologies of assurance in CAM practice today / Ayo Walberg -- The harm principle and liability for CAM practice : a comparative analysis of Canadian and United States health freedom laws / Irehobhude O. Iyioha -- Risk and regulation : CAM products, practitioners, and the state : perspectives on "risk" and "protection of the public" in the Australian media / Monique Lewis -- Traditional medicine and the law in Kenya / John Harrington -- Regulation of complementary medicines in Australia : influences and policy drivers / Michael Dodson -- Intuitive spiritual medicine : negotiating incommensurability / Ruth Barcan -- Traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture practitioners and the Canadian health care system : the role of the state in creating the necessary vacancies / S. Welsh and Heather Boon -- Aspirations, integration, and the politics of regulation in the UK, past and future / Julie Stone --; CAM and conventional medicine in Switzerland : divided in theory, united in practice / Helene Martin and Jerome Debons -- Patient choice and professional regulation : how patients choose CAM practitioners / Felicity Bishop -- (Re) articulating identities through learning space : training for massage and reflexology / Emma Wainwright and Elodie Marende -- Research evidence and clinical practice in homeopathy / Morag Heirs -- Towards a learning profession : adapting clinical governance for complementary and alternative medicine / Jane Wilkinson and Nicola Gale -- The relation between the advancement of CAM knowledge and the regulation of biomedical research / Marie-Andree Jacob; Access restricted to authorized users and institutions N2 - The Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine draws on historical and international comparative research to provide a rigorous and thematic examination of the field. It argues that many popular and policy debates are stuck in a polarized and largely asocial discourse, and that interdisciplinary social science perspectives, theorising diversity in the field, provide a much more robust evidence base for policy and practice in the field UR - https://ezp.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/title/routcaam?institutionId=5224 ER -