Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
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Presents extensive marketing information to help complementary/alternative clinics provide comprehensive services and assessments. Discusses alternative medical systems, mind/body interventions, and various alternative therapies. Addresses education, licensing, and regulation. Hardcover, softcover also available…. More >>
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) have slowly found the way into hospitals, medical centers, private clinics and also general practice as the public has turned to (or turned back to maybe) the origins of traditional medcine, sometimes in favour of bio-medicine, which has not provided a full solution for many disease related problems, especially chronic illness.
The US Congress in 1991 passed legislation (P.L.102-170) to provides $2 million in funding for fiscal year 1992 to establish an office within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate and evaluate promising unconventional medical practices. The National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 (P.L.103-43) formally established the Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) within the Office of the Director, NIH, to facilitate study and evaluation of complementary and alternative medical practices and to disseminate the resulting information to the public. The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)( http://nccam.nih.gov/) was established by Congress under Title VI, Section 601 of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1999 (P.L. 105-277). This bill amended Title IV of the Public Health Service Act and elevated the status of the OAM to an NIH Center.
Complementary and alternative medicine can be classified into five domains: alternative medical systems (Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, Tibetan medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy), mind-body interventions (yoga, meditation, biofeedback, art and music therapy, Tai Chi Chuan), biologically based interventions (aromatherapy, herbs, diet-vitamins and minerals-nutraceuticals, magnetic-electricl-electromagnetic interventions), body-based manipulation therapies (bodywork-massage, chiropractic, osteopathy) and energy-metaphysical therapies (therapeutic touch-Reiki, prayer, Shamanism and spirit in medicine).
This book by Robert A Roush, PhD in complementary and alternatice health from Westbrook University in Aztec, New Mexico and director of the 7 Senses Health Center in Bethlehem in Pennsylvania is into five chapters: review of CAM, research, choosing modalities for a clinic, clinic design and structure, needed research, suggestions and speculations.
We found this book a good review of CAM with sound practical advice on how to set up a clinic and the research issues involved.
Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net
Søren Ventegodt, MD
Director, Quality of Life Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: ventegodt@livskvalitet.org
Rating: 4 / 5