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Health is broader than the prevention and treatment of disease. Increasingly, people are exploring strategies that they themselves can employ to improve their health, maintain wellness and improve quality of life. Many of these strategies are based on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
CHEO defines CAM as “treatments and health care practices not taught widely in Canadian medical schools, not generally used in Canadian hospitals and/or not usually reimbursed by medical insurance companies operating in Canada.”
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The alternative health medicine encyclopedia
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Marti, James -- Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, 1998.
This reference text covers alternative and holistic approaches to maintaining health - biofeedback, acupuncture, hypnosis, herbs, yoga, chiropractic, massage and other non-traditional treatments. Topics discussed include nutrition, exercise, stress, cancer, sexuality and ageing.
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The alternative medicine sourcebook: a realistic evaluation of alternative healing methods
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Bratman, Steven -- Los Angeles, CA: Lowell House, 1998.
This sourcebook explores the strengths and weaknesses of alternative healing methods. This book could be a useful tool for consumers seeking to make informed decisions about alternative options.
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Alternative medicine: what works
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Fugh-Berman, Adriane -- Baltimore, ML: Williams & Wilkins, 1997.
In scientific yet accessible language that speaks to both the lay reader and the professional, Fugh-Berman, a former field coordinator at the Office of Alternative Medicine, evaluates the peer-reviewed literature for 25 popular alternative therapies.
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The dictionary of alternative medicine
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Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange, 1998.
This dictionary contains the medical terms, slang and acronyms associated with alternative or complementary medicine.
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Essentials of complementary and alternative medicine
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Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999.
This book focuses on the issues and alternative practices that are most applicable to mainstream medicine. It covers social and scientific issues and explains how to practice evidence-based complementary/alternative medicine.
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Herbs: everyday reference for health professionals
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Ottawa: Canadian Pharmacists Association & CMA, 2000.
This book contains over 60 monographs on the prevailing herbs as well as herbs of tomorrow. It includes uses, dosage ranges, contra- indications, drug-herb interactions and supplemental chapters on broader issues such as cultural influences.
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The Mayo Clinic book of alternative medicine
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Mayo Clinic. -- New York, NY: Time Inc., 2010.
Offers the practical advice by using the red light/green light rating system to evaluate treatments. Ranging from acupuncture to yoga, Echinacea to St John's wort, and meditation to healing touch, this book provides answers to the questions people have about the effectiveness of alternative medicine and when it's appropriate to use it.
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The PDR family guide to natural medicines & healing therapies
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New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
This book provides fifty alternative therapy options--how they work, what they strive for, and potential side effects; how certain natural remedies interact with conventional drugs; Easy-to- use indexes that will enable you to find treatment options for hundreds of ailments and identify the most effective herbal remedies; and a sixteen-page herb identification portfolio featuring more than one hundred medicinal herbs, photographed in full color.
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Tyler's honest herbal: a sensible guide to the use of herbs and related remedies
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Foster, Steven -- New York: Haworth, 1999.
This book gives you a serious evaluation of both the positive and negative features of the use of the most important herbs for therapeutic purposes. Each herb write-up includes descriptive information on the source of the plant, its traditional uses, and an evaluation of the relevant and current literature which helps support or disprove the intended use of the plant.
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