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Main description:
The Oxford Handbook of Complementary Medicine presents evidence-based information on CAM in an easily accessible form, thereby enabling hospital doctors, GPs, nurses, medical students and other healthcare professionals to competently advise patients about CAM treatments.
The book covers definitions, cost, safety, regulation, legal and ethical questions and a range of practical issues, diagnostic techniques, and risk-benefit assessments of CAM modalities. The main part of the book is organised by condition, outlining for each the CAM treatments available, ranked according to level of evidence of effectiveness, followed by a concise clinical bottom line assessing risks and benefits, also in relation to conventional treatment.
The information is presented in a concise, matter-of-fact fashion, avoiding the obscure jargon sometimes used in CAM. Many issues surrounding CAM remain controversial and this handbook discusses them openly and critically.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP Oxford)
Publication date: March, 2008
Pages: 448
Dimensions: 106.00 x 186.00 x 18.40
Weight: 250g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Complementary Medicine, General Practice
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...[this book will be] of the greatest interest to general practitioners, but it will have some appeal across most branches of medicine...concise, finely set out and a good reference text. This book will allow practitioners to safely integrate their patients' use of CAM therapies into their conventional medical treatment...The Oxford Handbook of Complementary Medicine is an exellent resource for a wide range of medical practitioners to enable informed and reasoned discussion of CAM therapies.