Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine Book

List of illustrations     vii
Notes on contributors     viii
Acknowledgements     xi
List of abbreviations     xii
Introduction   Jon Adams     xiii
Methods in practice     1
Qualitative methods in CAM research: a focus upon narratives, prayer and spiritual healing   David Aldridge     3
Systematic reviews and CAM   Eric Manheimer   Jeanette Ezzo     19
Utilising existing data sets for CAM-consumption research: the case of cohort studies   David Sibbritt     37
Towards the application of RCTs for CAM: methodological challenges   Marie Pirotta     52
Combining qualitative methods and RCTs in CAM intervention research   Marja J. Verhoef   Laura C. Vanderheyden     72
Issues from the field     87
Evidence and CAM research: challenges and opportunities   Marc Cohen     89
The practitioner as researcher: research capacity-building within the ranks of CAM   Aslak Steinsbekk     105
Public health and CAM: exploring overlap, contrast and dissonance   Kevin Dew   Penelope Carroll     117
Involving the consumer in CAM research   Charlotte Paterson     133
Index     152