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| List of tables and figures | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Notes on the contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Utilization: Populations and Individuals | |
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| Profile, demographics and motivations for complementary and alternative medicine use | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The profile of complementary and alternative medicine users and reasons for complementary and alternative medicine use | |
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| Relief, risk and renewal: Mixed therapy regimens in an Australian suburb | |
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| Utilizing existing data sets to investigate complementary and alternative medicine consumption: Cohort studies and longitudinal analyses | |
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| Complementary and alternative medicine through the life cycle | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Women's use of complementary and alternative medicine during pregnancy: A critical review of the literature | |
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| Complementary and alternative medicine use among infants, children and adolescents | |
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| 'Getting on with life': The experiences of older people using complementary health care | |
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| Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine and disease context | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Topical and oral complementary and alternative medicine in acne: A consideration of context | |
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| Patient decision making about complementary and alternative medicine in cancer management: Context and process | |
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| Mental health and complementary and alternative medicine | |
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| Complementary and alternative medicine use among HIV-positive people: Research synthesis and implications for HIV care | |
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| Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine and well-being | |
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| Practice, Provision and the Professional Interface | |
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| Traditional medicine in context | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Biopolitics and the promotion of traditional herbal medicine in Vietnam | |
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| The inequalities of medical pluralism: Hierarchies of health, the politics of tradition and the economies of care in Indian oncology | |
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| In the presence of biomedicine: Ayurveda, medical integration and health seeking in Mysore, South India | |
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| Exploring the complementary and alternative medicine-conventional medicine interface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| They don't ask so I don't tell them: Patient-clinician communication about traditional, complementary and alternative medicine | |
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| The ethics of dietary supplements and natural health products in pharmacy practice: A systematic documentary analysis | |
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| Nostalgic and nostophobic referencing and the authentication of nurses' use of complementary therapies | |
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| Integrative medicine | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Variations in provider conceptions of integrative medicine | |
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| Which medicine? Whose standard? Critical reflections on medical integration in China | |
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| Complementary and alternative medicine education: Promoting a salutogenic focus in health care | |
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| Knowledge Production, Research Design and Perspectives | |
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| Evidence, safety and regulation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The role of evidence in alternative medicine: Contrasting biomedical and anthropological approaches | |
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| Researching complementary and alternative treatments: The gatekeepers are not at home | |
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| Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine: Promises and problems | |
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| Indirect risks of complementary and alternative medicine | |
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| The liberalization of regulatory structure of complementary and alternative medicine: Implications for consumers and professions | |
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| Traditional, complementary and integrative medicine in perspective | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The geography of complementary and alternative medicine | |
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| Repositioning the role of traditional medicine as essential health knowledge in global health: Do they still have a role to play? | |
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| Review of economic methods used in complementary and alternative medicine | |
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| Future agendas: Key debates and themes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The future of integrative medicine: A commentary on complementary and alternative medicine and integrative medicine | |
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| The challenges of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine research: A practitioner perspective | |
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| Research capacity building in traditional, complementary and integrative medicine: Grass-roots action towards a broader vision | |
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| Index | |