Choices in healing : integrating the best of conventional and complementary approaches to cancer /

Choices in healing : integrating the best of conventional and complementary approaches to cancer /

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Author / Creator:Lerner, Michael, 1943 October 22-
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 667 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Cancer -- Treatment.
Cancer -- Alternative treatment.
Cancer -- Popular works.
Neoplasms -- therapy.
Complementary Therapies.
Cancer.
Cancer -- Alternative treatment.
Cancer -- Treatment.
Popular Work.
Popular works.
Popular works.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099537
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ISBN:0585023050
9780585023052
0262278170
9780262278171
9780262121804
0262121808
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Restrictions unspecified
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Summary:A comprehensive guide for cancer patient or health professional who seeks a comprehensive overview of the available choices, both treatments and in living with cancer. Detailed explanations and evalutions of a wide range of complementary therapy programs, including spiritual and psychological approaches, nutritional therapies, physical therapies, pharmacological therapies, and traditional medicines.
Other form:Print version: Lerner, Michael, 1943 October 22- Choices in healing. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994 0262121808
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Paths of Hope and Ways of Healing
  • 1. On Never Giving Up Hope: Three Stories
  • 2. Healing and Curing: The Starting Point for Informed Choice
  • Part 2. Choice in Conventional Cancer Therapies
  • 3. The Crucial Difference: International Variations in Conventional Cancer Therapies
  • 4. The Debate Over Conventional Cancer Therapies
  • 5. American Cultures of Conventional Cancer Therapy
  • 6. Choosing Conventional Physicians, Hospitals, and Therapies
  • Part 3. Choice in Unconventional Cancer Therapies
  • 7. The Debate over Unconventional Cancer Therapies
  • 8. A Framework for Evaluating Unconventional Cancer Therapies
  • 9. Spiritual Approaches to Cancer
  • 10. Psychological Approaches to Cancer
  • Part 4. Mainstream Nutritional Science and the Unconventional Nutritional Cancer Therapies
  • 11. What Science Says about Nutrition and Cancer: Macronutrients
  • 12. Can Vitamins and Minerals Help? The Scientific View: Micronutrients
  • 13. Unconventional Nutritional Approaches to Cancer--An Overview
  • 14. The Gerson Diet--A Radical Anticancer Therapy
  • 15. Macrobiotics--A Diet and a Way of Life
  • 16. Virginia C. Livingston--Integrating Diet, Nutritional Supplements, and Immunotherapy
  • 17. Keith Block--Integrating Diet, Fitness, and Psychological Support into an Oncology Practice
  • Part 5. Physical, Traditional, and Pharmacological Therapies
  • 18. Physical and Energetic Approaches--Exercise, Massage, Therapeutic Touch, and Chiropractic
  • 19. Traditional Chinese Medicine---A Favored Adjunctive Therapy for American Cancer Patients
  • 20. Unconventional Pharmacological Therapies--An Overview
  • 21. Stanislaw Burzynski--Antineoplastons on the Edge of Medical Credibility
  • 22. Joseph Gold--Does Hydrazine Sulfate Prevent Weight Loss and Extend Life with Cancer?
  • 23. Emanuel Revici--Will His Unique Therapy Ever Be Scientifically Assessed?
  • Part 6. Living with Cancer
  • 24. Living with Cancer
  • 25. Controlling Pain
  • 26. On Living and Dying
  • 27. Making Your Choices
  • Appendix A. Choice in Resources
  • Appendix B. Professional Training Programs in Spiritual and Psychological Approaches to Cancer
  • Glossary
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author and Commonweal
  • Index

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