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Traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine and cancer care : an international analysis of grassroots integration / Philip Tovey, John Chatwin, and Alex Broom.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007Description: [xi], 179 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415359931 (hbk.)
  • 0415359937 (hbk.)
  • 9780415359948 (pbk.)
  • 0415359945 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • International analysis of grassroots integration
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.196994 22
LOC classification:
  • RC271.A62 T68 2007
Contents:
1. The empirical, theoretical and policy context in international perspective -- 2. Methodology : an overview of approach and research sites in the UK, Australia and Pakistan -- 3. The nature of CAM-focused cancer support groups -- 4. Group performance : enacting therapeutic alternatives in the collective environment -- 5. Confined innovation : organisational challenge and its limitations -- 6. An exploratory comparative case study from Australia -- 7. Consumption, and perceptions, of traditional, complementary and biomedical cancer treatments in Pakistan -- 8. Patients' negotiation of therapeutic options -- 9. Interprofessional conflict and strategic alliance.
Review: "Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Cancer Care provides the first in-depth exploration of the role patient support groups play in the provision of CAM in the UK and Australia. It also looks at the utilisation of non-biomedical treatments in Pakistan focusing on the role of informal social networks."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The empirical, theoretical and policy context in international perspective -- 2. Methodology : an overview of approach and research sites in the UK, Australia and Pakistan -- 3. The nature of CAM-focused cancer support groups -- 4. Group performance : enacting therapeutic alternatives in the collective environment -- 5. Confined innovation : organisational challenge and its limitations -- 6. An exploratory comparative case study from Australia -- 7. Consumption, and perceptions, of traditional, complementary and biomedical cancer treatments in Pakistan -- 8. Patients' negotiation of therapeutic options -- 9. Interprofessional conflict and strategic alliance.

"Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Cancer Care provides the first in-depth exploration of the role patient support groups play in the provision of CAM in the UK and Australia. It also looks at the utilisation of non-biomedical treatments in Pakistan focusing on the role of informal social networks."--BOOK JACKET.

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