Consumer Health & Integrative Medicine: A Holistic View of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices: A Holistic View of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practice

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Today, being a health consumer encompasses more than being knowledgeable about traditional medicine and health practice but also includes the necessity to be well informed about the expanding field of complementary and alternative medicine. Consumer Health and Integrative Medicine: Holistic View of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices, Second Edition was written to expand upon the many alternative modalities that many other consumer health texts overlook. It includes chapters on the major alternative medicine systems and healing modalities, including Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, naturopathy, homeopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, massage, reflexology, and herbals or botanicals. The authors mission is to increase reader's knowledge base, not make up their mind, as we all make better choices related to our own personal health care practices when we are informed consumers. Updates to the Second Edition include: - NEW! - The title of the book has changed from Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Health Professionals to Consumer Health and Integrative Medicine to place a greater light on the consumer health and integrative medicine aspects of the text. - REVISED! - Chapter 5, Conventional Medicine and Health Care, has brand new information on health insurance coverage and cost of personal health in lieu of the Affordable Care Act. All new considerations on how the ACA has impacted American heath care. - REVISED! - A new section in Chapter 14 addresses Mindfulness and its role in Mind-Body Intervention - REVISED! - A new section in Chapter 15 regarding the human biofield, as well as a whole new section of classroom activities - REVISED! - Chapter 16 now addresses the Ephedra controversy of the early 2000s, and also addresses more specific types of quackery by topic area. - UPDATED! - New research and statistics has been incorporated throughout the book regarding the various complementary and alternative methodologies, as well as strengthen information on evidence-based research into CAM and incorporated more information related to how these fit into current Western medicine environments. Review: Great Intro to all things CAM! - I really liked reading this book. It had a lot of great alternative tools. It does not go into a deep dive so if you already have an idea of what these methods are and what they can do for you - maybe you should find another in depth book. I gave this 4 stars because I think there are MORE practices out there that SHOULD be in this book. For example: Thermography as one example. It's a prevention tool that should be talked about more and added into this book. Iridology is a lot less talked about and I will say that reading about that definitely peaked my interest. Lets get more into this book! need revised version! Thanks Review: Great, unless you need the screen reader. - I'd love to say that this was worth the money. But I bought this for class with the hope of having a more eco-friendly and accessible product. Not the case here. It was certainly more eco-friendly than the print version. But accessible it is not. If you need the screen reader for this one, you may want to buy the text version and a membership to Speechify.