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Nurses in alternative health care: Integrating medical paradigms

May 9, 2010 By biotech-source.com Leave a Comment

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This digital document is a journal article from Social Science & Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The article is concerned with nurses in Israel who incorporate alternative health care practices into their work, and considers strategies used by them to reconcile a variety of theoretical and practice traditions. The analysis utilizes boundary theory and focuses on the following boundaries: territorial, epistemological, authority, and social. In-depth narrative interviews were carried out in 2004 with 15 nurses who were working or recently worked in both biomedical and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) settings. The findings show that nurses using CAM practices do not seek to change the epistemological and authority boundaries of biomedicine. Even so many believe that CAM methods should be included within the cognitive boundaries of biomedicine. They are not disturbed that most of these techniques have not passed the test of biomedical research criteria, though they feel blocked by physicians who keep the cognitive boundaries of biomedicine closed.

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Who Decides?: Conflicts of Rights in Health Care

May 6, 2010 By biotech-source.com Leave a Comment

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Some of the key thinkers in bioethics today examine the often agonizing array of value choices that confront all of us in providing for our own health care, or that of those for whom we bear personal responsibility.

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Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in Biology and Health Care

May 5, 2010 By biotech-source.com 3 Comments

Carbon dating is a technology borne out of archeologists’ desire to date ancient artifacts but it has also spawned exciting applications in biomedical science. Techniques refined at Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry are being used to address research questions as diverse as the age of the DNA in our brains to how long chemicals remain in our bodies. Research Scientist Ken Tutereltaub and high school teacher Bret States highlight the principles of carbon dating and how AMS technology is being used to provide insights into challenging problems in biomedicine. Series: Science on Saturday [5/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 14493]

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Environmental Health Risk V

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Health problems related to the environment have become
a major source of concern all over the world. The health of the population depends upon good quality environmental factors including air, water, soil,
food and many other factors.

Society aims to establish measures that can eliminate or considerably reduce hazardous factors from the human environment to minimize the associated health risks. The ability to achieve these objectives is greatly dependent on the development of suitable experimental, modelling
and interpretive techniques, that allow a balanced assessment of the risk involved, as well as suggest ways in which the situation can be improved.

Environmental Health Risk 2009 is the Fifth International Conference in this successful series which topics include: Risk Prevention and Monitoring; Air Pollution; Water Quality Issues; Food Safety; Occupational Health; Social and
Economic Issues; Radiation Fields; Accident and Man-Made Risks; Toxicology Analysis; Epidemiological Studies and Pandemics; Control of Pollution Risk; Mitigation Problems; Ecology and Health; Waste Disposal; Disaster Management and Preparedness; Noise; Lifestyle Risk; Prevention Strategies; The Built
Environment and Health.

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