Reshaping Herbal Medicine - Knowledge, Education and Professional Culture

di O' Sullivan • 2005 • dettagli prodotto

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DESCRIZIONE

This is the first definitive book to draw on unique, unpublished, professional expertise about the reshaping of herbal medicine in the UK. This book outlines the outcomes of recent examinations, and poses challenging questions about he direction of future herbal medicine policy within the UK. ContentsIntroduction: reshaping herbal medicine: the contextSection One: Knowledge, education and professional culture1. Determining professional identity: an exploration of the factors, which characterise the nature of a profession2. Professional education and practitioner identitySection Two: The traditions of Herbal Medicine3. Chinese herbal medicine: the history and context to statutory self-regulation4. A brief history of Traditional Tibetan Medicine and its introduction to the United Kingdom5. The development of integrated medicine with reference to the history of Ayurvedic medicine6. Western herbal medicine - gender, culture and orthodoxy7. The relationship of classical Greek medicine to contemporary Western herbalism: an exploration of the idea of 'holism'Section Three: Problems with knowledge, education and culture in the development of the herbal medicine profession8. Patient safety and practitioner identity: the move towards statutory self-regulation9. Herbs and herbalists: professional identity and the protection of practice10. Culture and knowledge in the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine11. Knowledge, skills and competence: an exploration of the education and professional formation of herbalists12. Knowledge and myths of knowledge in the 'science' of herbal medicine