Therapeutic touch /
Therapeutic touch /
edited by Béla Scheiber and Carla Selby.
- 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- Introduction -- The Social Science of Therapeutic Touch -- A Brief History of Therapeutic Touch -- Therapeutic Touch as a Nursing Intervention -- Should Nurses Practice Therapeutic Touch? Should Nursing Schools Teach Therapeutic Touch? -- Ethical Issues Concerning Therapeutic Touch -- The Distortion of Martha Rogers's Theory by Therapeutic Touch Practitioners -- Touch of Mysticism -- Therapeutic Touch in Mass Media, Specialized Media, and on the Internet -- Skeptics Confront Therapeutic Touch: A Case Study -- Getting In Touch With TT Experimenters -- Therapeutic Touch: Is There a Scientific Basis for the Practice? -- The International TT Picture -- The Physical Science of Therapeutic Touch -- A Delineation of Facts about One Study of TT -- The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Pain and Anxiety in Burn Patients -- The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee -- Perception of Conventional Sensory Cues as an Alternative to the Postulated "Human Energy Field" of Therapeutic Touch -- Therapeutic Touch: Investigation of a Practitioner -- Replication of TT Research: A Case Study -- Recent Research on Therapeutic Touch -- Science or Pseudoscience? Pentagon Funds Alternative Health Study -- UAB Final Report of Therapeutic Touch--An Appraisal -- Therapeutic Touch: Evaluating the "Growing Body of Evidence" Claim -- Complementary Healing Intervention and Dermal Wound Reepithelialization: An Overview -- The Pseudophysics of Therapeutic Touch -- Appendices -- Memorandum from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences -- Tri-Service Nursing Research Grant Final Report -- Report of the Chancellor's Committee on Therapeutic Touch (Claman Report) -- Recommendations from a [Colorado] State Board of Nursing Subcommittee -- Chronology of Therapeutic Touch -- TT Flyer Promoting a Class for Credit -- Minutes of the CBN Subcommittee on TT -- Letter from CBN (February 10, 1993) -- Letter from HEWI to CBN (May 7, 1993) -- Notice from CBN Regarding the Discontinuation of CEU Requirements (February 1994) -- University of Colorado's Academic Relevance Committee Report (November 17, 1993) -- Nursing School's Response to the Claman Report on TT (August 2, 1994) -- RMS's Letter to UCHSC's Chancellor Fulginiti (September 18, 1994) -- Letter from the Chair of CU's Regents to RMS (April 24, 1995) -- Contributors. Section 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Section 2. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Section 3. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Appendix 3. Appendix 4. Appendix 5. Appendix 6. Appendix 7. Appendix 8. Appendix 9. Appendix 10. Appendix 11. Appendix 12. Appendix 13. Appendix 14.
1573928046 9781573928045
00028604
Touch--Therapeutic use
Energy medicine
RZ999. / T48 2000
615.852
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- Introduction -- The Social Science of Therapeutic Touch -- A Brief History of Therapeutic Touch -- Therapeutic Touch as a Nursing Intervention -- Should Nurses Practice Therapeutic Touch? Should Nursing Schools Teach Therapeutic Touch? -- Ethical Issues Concerning Therapeutic Touch -- The Distortion of Martha Rogers's Theory by Therapeutic Touch Practitioners -- Touch of Mysticism -- Therapeutic Touch in Mass Media, Specialized Media, and on the Internet -- Skeptics Confront Therapeutic Touch: A Case Study -- Getting In Touch With TT Experimenters -- Therapeutic Touch: Is There a Scientific Basis for the Practice? -- The International TT Picture -- The Physical Science of Therapeutic Touch -- A Delineation of Facts about One Study of TT -- The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Pain and Anxiety in Burn Patients -- The Effects of Therapeutic Touch on Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee -- Perception of Conventional Sensory Cues as an Alternative to the Postulated "Human Energy Field" of Therapeutic Touch -- Therapeutic Touch: Investigation of a Practitioner -- Replication of TT Research: A Case Study -- Recent Research on Therapeutic Touch -- Science or Pseudoscience? Pentagon Funds Alternative Health Study -- UAB Final Report of Therapeutic Touch--An Appraisal -- Therapeutic Touch: Evaluating the "Growing Body of Evidence" Claim -- Complementary Healing Intervention and Dermal Wound Reepithelialization: An Overview -- The Pseudophysics of Therapeutic Touch -- Appendices -- Memorandum from Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences -- Tri-Service Nursing Research Grant Final Report -- Report of the Chancellor's Committee on Therapeutic Touch (Claman Report) -- Recommendations from a [Colorado] State Board of Nursing Subcommittee -- Chronology of Therapeutic Touch -- TT Flyer Promoting a Class for Credit -- Minutes of the CBN Subcommittee on TT -- Letter from CBN (February 10, 1993) -- Letter from HEWI to CBN (May 7, 1993) -- Notice from CBN Regarding the Discontinuation of CEU Requirements (February 1994) -- University of Colorado's Academic Relevance Committee Report (November 17, 1993) -- Nursing School's Response to the Claman Report on TT (August 2, 1994) -- RMS's Letter to UCHSC's Chancellor Fulginiti (September 18, 1994) -- Letter from the Chair of CU's Regents to RMS (April 24, 1995) -- Contributors. Section 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Section 2. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Section 3. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Appendix 3. Appendix 4. Appendix 5. Appendix 6. Appendix 7. Appendix 8. Appendix 9. Appendix 10. Appendix 11. Appendix 12. Appendix 13. Appendix 14.
1573928046 9781573928045
00028604
Touch--Therapeutic use
Energy medicine
RZ999. / T48 2000
615.852