Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Illustrated Colour Text - Softcover

Cumming BSc(Hons) MD FRCPE, Allan D; Simpson BA(Hons) RN RNT, Karen; Brown MBChB DRCOG, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443073740 ISBN 13: 9780443073748

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2007

Synopsis

This short, illustrated introductory text covers the basics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and is written primarily from the perspective of what medical students need to know and understand about this subject. It explores what CAM is and why it's popular with patients, what are the principal therapies, their appropriate use for treating common diseases, and how CAM can be integrated into everyday general practice.

• A short, readable book on the basics of CAM
• Supported by research findings
• Applies to everyday medical practice
• Written at a level suitable for medical and other health students
• Succinct - thus appropriate for a short module on CAM - with text broken up by boxes, pictures and line drawings

About this edition

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0443073740
• ISBN 13: 9780443073748
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 94