Synopses & Reviews
A ground-breaking collection of contemporary TCIM literature featuring respected research articles alongside fresh material. Bringing together the perspectives of a diverse range of international practitioners and academics, it provides essential guidance, insight and inspiration for those embarking upon study, practice or research in this field.
Synopsis
This authoritative collection is the first wide-ranging overview dedicated to traditional, complementary and integrative medicine (TCIM) and its scientific study. Compiled by an expert editorial team, it is an essential guide to the vast and ever-growing international literature on TCIM.
Contributions come from practitioners and academics drawn from a diverse range of disciplines and professions across the globe. From perspectives on the significance of TCIM within public health policy to discourses on its influence in fields such as psychiatry and sociology, discrete chapters come together to provide an international map of the contemporary research, key debates and core issues which shape the field.
Carefully structured to ensure easy navigation, the reader is divided into three parts:
- Part A focuses on the consumption of TCIM, including chapters on its use through the life-cycle and within the context of disease and health management
- Part B covers considerations for practitioners across the world, taking in issues over ethics, communication and education
- Part C features chapters on the role of evidence, research and knowledge production in TCIM and looks at what lies ahead for the field
With its thought-provoking insights and suggestions for further reading, this comprehensive resource provides guidance and inspiration for anyone embarking on study, practice or research within health, nursing or medicine.
About the Author
JON ADAMS Professor of Public Health at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and holds an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship in CAM and women's health. He is Executive Director of the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM) www.norphcam.org and a Senior Fellow of the International Brisbane Initiative at the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford. Jon is also National Convenor of the 'Evidence, Research and Policy in Complementary Medicine' Special Interest Group at the Public Health Association of Australia, Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journals Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies and BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine as well as Regional Co-Editor for the European Journal of Integrative Medicine.
GAVIN J. ANDREWS Professor at McMaster University, Canada. Gavin was the inaugural Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society from 2006-2011. A health geographer and predominantly qualitative researcher, Gavin's wide-ranging interests include the dynamics between space/place and complementary medicine, aging, nursing, specific phobias, fitness, health histories, popular music and primary health care. Much of Gavin's work is positional and considers the development, state-of-the-art and future of his sub-discipline. Gavin's particular interests in complementary medicine include small business entrepreneurship, visualization practices, and the use of music as an everyday practice for wellbeing.
JOANNE BARNES Associate Professor in Herbal Medicines at the School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is an honorary consultant to the World Health Organisation's Uppsala Monitoring Centre and a member of its herbal safety signal review panel. Joanne's research interests broadly include the utilisation, quality, efficacy, safety and pharmacovigilance of complementary medicines, particularly herbal medicinal products, and the roles and experiences of the pharmacist and other stakeholders in the safe and effective use of complementary medicines. Her work bridges the disciplines of pharmacognosy/natural products, pharmacovigilance/pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacy practice/health services research.
ALEX BROOM Associate Professor of Sociology and Australia Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. Alex specialises in the sociology of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) and the sociology of cancer and end-of-life care and he has led sociological studies of TCAM in Australia, the UK, Brazil, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Alex is currently leading a cross-cultural comparative study of medical pluralism in Australia, India and Brazil and a longitudinal qualitative study of end-of-life care in Australia.
PARKER MAGIN General Practitioner and is Senior Lecturer and Director, Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development Program, Discipline of General Practice, University of Newcastle, Australia and a Medical Educator, General Practice Training Valley to Coast, Newcastle, Australia. Parker is also a Key Collaborator with the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM), an Affiliated Researcher with the Brain and Mental Health Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, and a Member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Standing Committee - Research.
Table of Contents
Introduction; J.Adams,
G.J.Andrews,
J.Barnes,
A.Broom and
P.MaginPART I: UTILISATION: POPULATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS
Section I: Profile, Demographics and Motivations for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use
Introduction; J.Adams, G.J.Andrews, J.Barnes, A.Broom and P.Magin The Profile of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Users and Reasons for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use; G.J.Andrews, J.Adams, J.Segrott and C.W.LuiRelief, Risk and Renewal: Mixed Therapy Regimens in an Australian Suburb; L.ConnorUtilising Existing Data Sets to Investigate Complementary and Alternative Medicine Consumption; D.Sibbritt and J.AdamsSection II: Complementary and Alternative Medicine through the Life-cycle
Introduction; J.Adams, G.J.Andrews, J.Barnes, A.Broom and P.MaginWomen's Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine During Pregnancy; J.Adams, C.W.Lui, D.Sibbritt, A.Broom, J.Wardle, C.Homer, A.Steel and S.BeckComplementary and Alternative Medicine Use amongst Infants, Children and Adolescents; D.Adams, K.Kemper and S.Vohra'Getting on with Life': The Experience of Older People using Complementary Health Care; T.CartwrightSection III: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Disease Context
Introduction; J.Adams, G.J.Andrews, J.Barnes, A.Broom and P.MaginTopical and Oral Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Acne; P.Magin, J.Adams, D.Pond and W.SmithPatient Decision-making About Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Management; L.Balneaves, L.Weeks and D.Seely Mental Health and Complementary and Alternative Medicine; J.Sarris and J.LakeComplementary and Alternative Medicine Use among HIV-positive People; R.Littlewood and P.Vanable Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Well-being; R.HarveyPART II: PRACTICE, PROVISION AND THE PROFESSIONAL INTERFACE
Section IV: Traditional Medicine in Context
Introduction; J.Adams, G.J.Andrews, J.Barnes, A.Broom and P.MaginBio-politics and the Promotion of Traditional Herbal Medicine in Vietnam; A.WahlbergThe Inequalities of Medical Pluralism; A.Broom, A.Doron and P.ToveyIn the Presence of Biomedicine: Ayurveda, Medical Integration and Health Seeking in Mysore, South India; T.NisulaSection V: Exploring the Complementary and Alternative Medicine-conventional Medicine Interface
Introduction; J.Adams, G.J.Andrews, J.Barnes, A.Broom and P.MaginThey Don't Ask So I Don't Tell Them: Patient-clinician Communication about Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine; B.Shelley, A.Sussman, R.Williams, A.Segal and B.Crabtree (on behalf of the RIOS Net Clinicians)
The Ethics of Dietary Supplements and Natural Health Products in Pharmacy Practice; H.Boon, K.Hirschkorn, G.Griener and M.CaliNostalgic and Nostophobic Referencing and the Authentication of Nurses' Use of Complementary Therapies; P.Tovey and J.AdamsSection VI: Integrative Medicine
Introduction; J.Adams, G.J.Andrews, J.Barnes, A.Broom and P.MaginVariations in Provider Conceptions of Integrative Medicine; A.Hsiao, G.Ryan, R.Hays, I.Coulter, R.Anderson and N.WengerWhich Medicine? Whose Standard? Critical Reflections on Medical Integration in C