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