Health, the Individual, and Integrated Medicine

Foreword. 1. Making and taking health care decisions. 2. Lifestyle, charismatic ideology and a praxis aesthetic. 3. The clinical assessment of acupuncture for asthma. 4. Of ethics and education: strategies for curriculum and development. 5. Aesthetics and the individual in the practice of medical research. 6. Clinical research, the individual patient, and the limits of randomised controlled trials. 7. A community approach to cancer in families. 8. Music therapy references relating to cancer and palliative care. 9. Music therapy and spirituality: A transcendental understanding of suffering. 10. Prayer and spiritual healing in medical settings. 11. A qualitative research perspective on healing. 12. The breath in healing. 13. Music therapy and neurological rehabilitation: Recognition and the performed body in an ecological niche. 14. Guidelines for Clinical Research. Conclusion. References. Index.

The book will be of interest to all those who work in medicine and care, but there is some important theological work to be done in relation to Aldridge's challenge to religion and spirituality.