Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine : policy and public health perspectives / editors, Gerard Bodeker, Gemma Burford.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Policy. Introduction / Gerard Bodeker and Gemma Burford. ch. 1. Policy and public health perspectives on traditional, complementary and alternative medicine: an overview / Gerard Bodeker, Fredi Kronenberg and Gemma Burford. ch. 2. Financing traditional, complementary and alternative health care services and research / Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker and Chi-Keong Ong. ch. 3. Training / Gerard Bodeker [and others]. ch. 4. Safety: issues and policy / Gilbert Shia, Barry Noller and Gemma Burford. ch. 5. Pharmacovigilance of herbal medicines: a United Kingdom perspective / Joanne Barnes. ch. 6. Medicinal plant biodiversity and local healthcare: sustainable use and livelihood development / Gerard Bodeker and Gemma Burford. ch. 7. Home herbal gardens -- a novel health security strategy based on local knowledge and resources / G. Hariramamurthi [and others]. ch. 8. Humanitarian responses to traditional medicine for refugee care / Cora Neumann and Gerard Bodeker. ch. 9. Public-private partnerships: a case study from East Africa / Patrick Mbindyo -- Public health issues: priority diseases and health conditions. ch. 10. Malaria / Merlin L. Willcox and Gerard Bodeker. ch. 11. HIV/AIDS: traditional systems of health care in the management of a global epidemic / Gerard Bodeker [and others]. ch. 12. An overview of clinical studies on complementary and alternative medicine in HIV infection and AIDS / Jianping Liu. ch. 13. Skin and wound care: traditional, complementary and alternative medicine in public health dermatology / Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker and Terence J. Ryan. ch. 14. Traditional orthopaedic practices: beyond 'bonesetting' / Gemma Burford, Gerard Bodeker and Jonathan Cohen -- Research. ch. 15. Clinical trial methodology / Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, Urmila Thatte and Jianping Liu. ch. 16. Ethical issues in research / Merlin L. Willcox, Gerard Bodeker and Ranjit Roy Chaudhury. ch. 17. Intellectual property rights / Gerard Bodeker. Epilogue / Gerard Bodeker and Gemma Burford.

This is the first book to address public health issues in traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM). It presents state-of-the-art reviews of TCAM research in a range of priority public health areas such as malaria and HIV and in such common ailments as skin conditions and orthopedic injury in developing countries. Contributions analyze policy trends in areas such as financing of TCAM and education and training in this field as well as selected case studies of model TCAM projects. Important chapters on research methodology, ethical and safety issues, and intellectual property.

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