TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scheiber,Béla
AU  - Selby,Carla
TI  - Therapeutic touch
SN  - 1573928046
AV  - RZ999. T48 2000
U1  - 615.852 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Amherst, N.Y.
PB  - Prometheus Books
KW  - Touch
KW  - Therapeutic use
KW  - Energy medicine
N1  - 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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