Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion
Michael H. Cohen
Price
395
ISBN
9788125032298
Language
English
Pages
248
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2007
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan
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One of the transformations facing health care in the twenty-first century is the safe, effective, and appropriate integration of conventional, or biomedical, care with complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, such as acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, herbal medicine, and spiritual healing. In Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion, Michael H. Cohen discusses the need for establishing rules and standards to facilitate appropriate integration of conventional and CAM therapies.

The kind of integrated health care many patients seek dwells in a borderland between the physical and the spiritual, between the quantifiable and the immeasurable, Cohen observes. But this mix of care fails to present clear rules for clinicians regarding which therapies to recommend, accept, or discourage, and how to discuss patient requests regarding inclusion of such therapies. Focusing on the social, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of integrative care and grounding his analysis in the attendant legal, regulatory, and institutional changes, Cohen provides a multidisciplinary examination of the shift to a more fluid, pluralistic health care environment.

Michael H. Cohen served as an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and as an adjunct assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Negotiating the New Health Care
2. Regulating Health Care Rogues
3. Regulation, Religious Experience and Epilepsy
4. Healing, Environment and Ecology
5. Renewing the Matrix of Health and Healing
6. Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion

Epilogue: Toward the Future

Appendix A: State of the Evidence Regarding Complementary Therapies

Appendix B: Key Arenas of Legal and Policy Intervention

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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