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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Patwardhan, Bhushan,
• Mutalik, Gururaj,
• Tillu, Girish,
• Limbert, Matt,

Titel

Integrative approaches for health : biomedical research, ayurveda and yoga

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Academic Press,

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ""Front Cover""; ""Dedication""; ""Integrative Approaches for Health""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHORS""; ""MODERN MEDICINE""; ""FOREWORD""; ""BACK TO INDIA""; ""AT THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Cover""; ""Chapter 1 - Advocacy for Integration""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""GLOBAL HEALTH SCENARIO""; ""THE EVOLUTION OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEM""; ""DIVERSITY OF CHALLENGES""; ""CASE OF THE UNITED STATES""; ""CASE OF INDIA""; ""ADVANCES IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES""; ""UNRESOLVED CHALLENGES""; ""TRADITIONAL AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE""
• ""NONPHARMACOLOGICAL APPROACHES""""EXPERIENCE AND EVIDENCE: LEARNING TOGETHER""; ""INTEGRATIVE HEALTH AND MEDICINE""; ""MODERN MEDICINE, AYURVEDA, AND YOGA""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 2 - Evolution of Medicine""; ""SHAMANIC AND ETHNOMEDICINE""; ""PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE""; ""PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE""; ""SCIENCE IN THE WEST""; ""SCIENCE IN THE EAST""; ""EASTERN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE""; ""CHINA""; ""JAPAN""; ""KOREA""; ""TIBET""; ""INDIA""; ""EVOLUTION OF AYURVEDA AND YOGA""; ""SCIENCE AND TRADITIONS""; ""MODERN MEDICINE""; ""FUTURE APPROACHES""; ""REFERENCES""
• ""Chapter 3 - Concepts of Health and Disease""""HEALTH AND DISEASE""; ""CONCEPT OF DISEASES""; ""DISEASE CLASSIFICATION""; ""DEFINITION OF HEALTH""; ""HEALTH CARE AND MEDICAL CARE""; ""DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH""; ""DIMENSIONS OF HEALTH""; ""WHAT IS WELL-BEING?""; ""HOLISTIC HEALTH""; ""QUALITY OF LIFE""; ""ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH""; ""HEALTH PROMOTION""; ""FROM PUBLIC TO PLANETARY HEALTH""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 4 - Evidence-Based Medicine and Ayurveda""; ""WHAT IS EVIDENCE?""; ""CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS""; ""ACCESSING EVIDENCE""; ""QUALITY AND LEVELS OF EVIDENCE""; ""EBM IN PRACTICE""
• ""T&CM AND THE COCHRANE APPROACH""""THE CASE OF HOMEOPATHY""; ""PLACEBO AND NOCEBO EFFECTS""; ""EVIDENCE FOR YOGA""; ""EVIDENCE FOR AYURVEDA""; ""CONCEPTS OF EVIDENCE IN AYURVEDA""; ""THE NEW EBM""; ""HIGH EVIDENCE LOW ETHICS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 5 - Systems Biology and Holistic Concepts""; ""THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS TO SYSTEMS APPROACH""; ""BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS""; ""OMICS FOR STUDYING CELLS""; ""OPEN SYSTEMS""; ""THE EMERGENCE OF SYSTEMS BIOLOGY""; ""THE LIVING CELL AS SYSTEM""; ""SYSTEMS MEDICINE AND HOLISTIC HEALTH""; ""THE EXAMPLE OF DIABETES""; ""THE FUTURE OF SYSTEMS MEDICINE""
• ""THE SYSTEMS APPROACH OF AYURVEDA""""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 6 - Lifestyle and Behavior""; ""THE EPIDEMIC OF LIFESTYLE DISEASES""; ""LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION""; ""BODY, MIND, CONSCIOUSNESS""; ""EMERGING EVIDENCE FROM RESEARCH""; ""YOGA AND MEDITATION""; ""MINDFULNESS""; ""YOGA AND EXERCISE""; ""LIFESTYLE AND BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE""; ""SALUTOGENESIS""; ""OIL MASSAGE""; ""SPIRITUALITYâ€?BEYOND BEHAVIOR""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 7 - Food and Diet""; ""HISTORICAL ACCOUNT""; ""FOOD AND NUTRITION""; ""SCIENCE OF NUTRITION AND DIET""; ""DIGESTION AND GUT HEALTH""; ""DIET THERAPY""
• ""DIETARY ADVICE""
• Despite spectacular advances, modern medicine faces formidable global challenges in several key areas-notably the persistence of major killer diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy, and newer threats including HIV/AIDS, resistant infections, and Ebola. As such, modern medicine has not led to a significant decrease in chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, and other degenerative and autoimmune diseases. The authors believe that modern medicine needs to experience a paradigm shift, an integration of traditions-in particular from the ancient systems like Ayurveda and Yoga. Integrat
• English
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 13, 2015).