Preview books - Understanding Complimentary Medicine
Complementary medicine is a term that covers many unrelated therapies. The purpose of this book is to provide a brief impartial overview of each of the more frequently used therapies that are included within the broad term ‘complementary medicine’. The reader can then decide whether and how best to investigate a treatment. Complementary treatments used to be called ‘alternative’, because they were thought to represent an alternative to conventional medicine. The term has changed to ‘complementary’ as doctors and complementary therapists began working together, using treatments that they both recognised to be of value.
Dr George Lewith is a Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Physician at Southampton General Hospital, leading a research group that investigates complementary therapies. He is also in practice as a complementary medical physician in both Southampton and London.
