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Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
edited by Marc C. Micozzi, MD, PhD, 303 pp, $39.95, New York, NY, Churchill Livingstone Inc, 1996.
Mark H. Greenawald, MD, Reviewer
Carilion Health System Roanoke, Va
Arch Fam Med. 1997;6(2):197.
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Are you encountering more and more patients who ask about alternative medical therapies? Have you wondered about these approaches, and why they are popular among our patients? Or perhaps you, like myself, have read about modalities that are considered outside of accepted medical practice but, were left with the nagging question: "What if they're on to something?"
If you have wondered at all about the alternative medicine movement and have felt the need to find out more, then Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine may be just the place to start. The text, edited by Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD, executive director of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Pa) and editorial board member for the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, presents a systematic approach to understanding a group of diverse health systems, techniques, and philosophies that are collectively used by most of the world's population, some for
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