Book “ABC of complementary medicine” has contents: What is complementary medicine, users and practitioners of complementary medicine, complementary/integrated medicine in conventional practice, herbal medicine, massage therapies, unconventional approaches to nutritional medicine, complementary medicine and the patient, and other contents. | Complementary Medicine Second Edition Complementary Medicine Second Edition EDITED BY Catherine Zollman General Practitioner Bristol, UK Andrew Vickers Associate Attending Research Methodologist Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, USA Janet Richardson Professor of Health Service Research Faculty of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth Plymouth, UK This edition first published 2008, © 2008 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd First edition published 2000 by BMJ Books BMJ Books is an imprint of BMJ Publishing Group Limited, used under licence by Blackwell Publishing which was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing programme has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered office: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Editorial offices: 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, USA For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at The right of the author to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Designations used by companies to distinguish
