JON ADAMS Professor of Public Health at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and holds an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship in CAM and women's health. He is Executive Director of the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM) www.norphcam.org and a Senior Fellow of the International Brisbane Initiative at the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford. Jon is also National Convenor of the 'Evidence, Research and Policy in Complementary Medicine' Special Interest Group at the Public Health Association of Australia, Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journals Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies and BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine as well as Regional Co-Editor for the European Journal of Integrative Medicine.GAVIN J. ANDREWS Professor at McMaster University, Canada. Gavin was the inaugural Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society from 2006-2011. A health geographer and predominantly qualitative researcher, Gavin's wide-ranging interests include the dynamics between space/place and complementary medicine, aging, nursing, specific phobias, fitness, health histories, popular music and primary health care. Much of Gavin's work is positional and considers the development, state-of-the-art and future of his sub-discipline. Gavin's particular interests in complementary medicine include small business entrepreneurship, visualization practices, and the use of music as an everyday practice for wellbeing.JOANNE BARNES Associate Professor in Herbal Medicines at the School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is an honorary consultant to the World Health Organisation's Uppsala Monitoring Centre and a member of its herbal safety signal review panel. Joanne's research interests broadly include the utilisation, quality, efficacy, safety and pharmacovigilance of complementary medicines, particularly herbal medicinal products, and the roles and experiences of the pharmacist and other stakeholders in the safe and effective use of complementary medicines. Her work bridges the disciplines of pharmacognosy/natural products, pharmacovigilance/pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacy practice/health services research.ALEX BROOM Associate Professor of Sociology and Australia Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. Alex specialises in the sociology of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) and the sociology of cancer and end-of-life care and he has led sociological studies of TCAM in Australia, the UK, Brazil, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Alex is currently leading a cross-cultural comparative study of medical pluralism in Australia, India and Brazil and a longitudinal qualitative study of end-of-life care in Australia.PARKER MAGIN General Practitioner and is Senior Lecturer and Director, Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development Program, Discipline of General Practice, University of Newcastle, Australia and a Medical Educator, General Practice Training Valley to Coast, Newcastle, Australia. Parker is also a Key Collaborator with the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM), an Affiliated Researcher with the Brain and Mental Health Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, and a Member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Standing Committee - Research.

• Introduction; J.Adams,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginPART I: UTILISATION: POPULATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS Section I: Profile, Demographics and Motivations for Complementary and Alternative Medicine UseIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.Magin  The Profile of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Users and Reasons for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use;  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Adams ,  J.Segrott  &  C.W.LuiRelief, Risk and Renewal: Mixed Therapy Regimens in an Australian Suburb;  L.ConnorUtilising Existing Data Sets to Investigate Complementary and Alternative Medicine Consumption;  D.Sibbritt  &  J.AdamsSection II: Complementary and Alternative Medicine through the Life-cycle Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginWomen's Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine During Pregnancy;  J.Adams ,  C.W.Lui ,  D.Sibbritt ,  A.Broom ,  J.Wardle ,  C.Homer ,  A.Steel  &  S.BeckComplementary and Alternative Medicine Use amongst Infants, Children and Adolescents;  D.Adams ,  K.Kemper  &  S.Vohra'Getting on with Life': The Experience of Older People using Complementary Health Care;  T.CartwrightSection III: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Disease Context Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginTopical and Oral Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Acne;  P.Magin ,  J.Adams ,  D.Pond  &  W.SmithPatient Decision-making About Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Management;  L.Balneaves ,  L.Weeks  &  D.Seely  Mental Health and Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  J.Sarris  &  J.LakeComplementary and Alternative Medicine Use among HIV-positive People;  R.Littlewood  &  P.Vanable  Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Well-being;  R.HarveyPART II: PRACTICE, PROVISION AND THE PROFESSIONAL INTERFACESection IV: Traditional Medicine in ContextIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginBio-politics and the Promotion of Traditional Herbal Medicine in Vietnam;  A.WahlbergThe Inequalities of Medical Pluralism;  A.Broom ,  A.Doron  &  P.ToveyIn the Presence of Biomedicine: Ayurveda, Medical Integration and Health Seeking in Mysore, South India;  T.NisulaSection V: Exploring the Complementary and Alternative Medicine-conventional Medicine InterfaceIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  & B.Shelley,  A.Sussman ,  R.Williams ,  A.Segal  &  B.Crabtree  (on behalf of the RIOS Net Clinicians)The Ethics of Dietary Supplements and Natural Health Products in Pharmacy Practice;  H.Boon ,  K.Hirschkorn ,  G.Griener  &  M.CaliNostalgic and Nostophobic Referencing and the Authentication of Nurses' Use of Complementary Therapies;  P.Tovey  &  J.AdamsSection VI: Integrative Medicine Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginVariations in Provider Conceptions of Integrative Medicine;  A.Hsiao ,  G.Ryan ,  R.Hays ,  I.Coulter ,  R.Anderson  &  N.WengerWhich Medicine? Whose Standard? Critical Reflections on Medical Integration in China;  R.Fan  &  I.HollidayComplementary and Alternative Medicine Education;  D.Rakel ,  M.Guerrera ,  B.Bayles ,  G.Desai  &  E.FerraraPART III: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, RESEARCH DESIGN AND PERSPECTIVESSection VII: Evidence, Safety and RegulationIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Role of Evidence in Alternative Medicine;  C.BarryResearching Complementary and Alternative Treatments;  V.Fønnebø ,  S.Grimsgaard ,  H.Walach ,  C.Ritenbaugh ,  A.Norheim ,  H.MacPherson ,  G.Lewith ,  L.Launsø ,  M.Koithan ,  T.Falkenberg ,  H.Boon  &  M.AickinEvidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Promises and Problems;  I.Coulter  Indirect Risks of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  J.Wardle  &  J.AdamsThe Liberalisation of Regulatory Structure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  M.WeirSection VIII: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine in PerspectiveIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Geography of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Segrott ,  C.W.Lui  &  J.Adams  Re-positioning the Role of Traditional Medicine as Essential Health Knowledge in Global Health?;  D.Hollenberg ,  D.Zakus ,  T.Cook  &  X.W.Xu  Review of Economic Methods Used in Complementary Medicine;  C.Doran ,  D.Chang ,  H.Kiat  &  A.BensoussanSection IX: Future agendas: Key Debates and ThemesIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Future of Integrative Medicine;  I.Coulter  The Challenges of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research;  J.Wardle  &  D.SeelyResearch Capacity Building in Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Grass-roots Action towards a Broader Vision;  J.Adams ,  D.Sibbritt ,  A.Broom ,  J.Wardle ,  A.Steel ,  V.Murthy  &  J.Daley

'This wide-ranging international reader brings together a 'Who's Who' from contemporary Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) fields, with abridged versions of papers that have helped shape the field, as well as exciting new chapters to help blaze a trail in developing an empirical, rigorous and critical approach to this emerging area of health and health care. Practitioners, students, researchers and policymakers from around the globe can now quickly become au fait with a vast and diverse TCIM knowledge from just one source. This reader is timely directing the field at a critical moment in the TCIM debate, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to all students and colleagues interested in this critical aspect of twenty first century health care.' - Damien Ridge MBACP PhD, Professor of Health Studies, University of Westminster, London, UK. 'The increasing popularity of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine presents unique challenges and opportunities for a wide range of disciplines and approaches seeking to shed light on this topic. This International Reader, edited by a stellar team of investigators, provides an illuminating overview of the key debates and issues which will be of significant benefit to those seeking a foundational introduction into the landscape of TCIM scholarship as well as a capstone resource for those more established within the field of study. I have no doubt that this collection will play a crucial role in helping to further establish and guide the international health research community towards adopting and promoting a critical, multidisciplinary perspective upon this substantial area of health and health care. This text covers a substantial amount of ground in a fresh and dynamic way and will be an invaluable resource to health and health care students, scholars and practitioners alike.' - Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Professor of Health Sciences and Research Chair in Health Human Resource Policy, University of Ottawa, Canada.

JON ADAMS Professor of Public Health at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and holds an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship in CAM and women's health. He is Executive Director of the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM) www.norphcam.org and a Senior Fellow of the International Brisbane Initiative at the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford. Jon is also National Convenor of the 'Evidence, Research and Policy in Complementary Medicine' Special Interest Group at the Public Health Association of Australia, Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journals Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies and BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine as well as Regional Co-Editor for the European Journal of Integrative Medicine.GAVIN J. ANDREWS Professor at McMaster University, Canada. Gavin was the inaugural Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society from 2006-2011. A health geographer and predominantly qualitative researcher, Gavin's wide-ranging interests include the dynamics between space/place and complementary medicine, aging, nursing, specific phobias, fitness, health histories, popular music and primary health care. Much of Gavin's work is positional and considers the development, state-of-the-art and future of his sub-discipline. Gavin's particular interests in complementary medicine include small business entrepreneurship, visualization practices, and the use of music as an everyday practice for wellbeing.JOANNE BARNES Associate Professor in Herbal Medicines at the School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is an honorary consultant to the World Health Organisation's Uppsala Monitoring Centre and a member of its herbal safety signal review panel. Joanne's research interests broadly include the utilisation, quality, efficacy, safety and pharmacovigilance of complementary medicines, particularly herbal medicinal products, and the roles and experiences of the pharmacist and other stakeholders in the safe and effective use of complementary medicines. Her work bridges the disciplines of pharmacognosy/natural products, pharmacovigilance/pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacy practice/health services research.ALEX BROOM Associate Professor of Sociology and Australia Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. Alex specialises in the sociology of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) and the sociology of cancer and end-of-life care and he has led sociological studies of TCAM in Australia, the UK, Brazil, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Alex is currently leading a cross-cultural comparative study of medical pluralism in Australia, India and Brazil and a longitudinal qualitative study of end-of-life care in Australia.PARKER MAGIN General Practitioner and is Senior Lecturer and Director, Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development Program, Discipline of General Practice, University of Newcastle, Australia and a Medical Educator, General Practice Training Valley to Coast, Newcastle, Australia. Parker is also a Key Collaborator with the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM), an Affiliated Researcher with the Brain and Mental Health Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, and a Member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Standing Committee - Research.

• Introduction; J.Adams,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginPART I: UTILISATION: POPULATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS Section I: Profile, Demographics and Motivations for Complementary and Alternative Medicine UseIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.Magin  The Profile of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Users and Reasons for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use;  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Adams ,  J.Segrott  &  C.W.LuiRelief, Risk and Renewal: Mixed Therapy Regimens in an Australian Suburb;  L.ConnorUtilising Existing Data Sets to Investigate Complementary and Alternative Medicine Consumption;  D.Sibbritt  &  J.AdamsSection II: Complementary and Alternative Medicine through the Life-cycle Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginWomen's Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine During Pregnancy;  J.Adams ,  C.W.Lui ,  D.Sibbritt ,  A.Broom ,  J.Wardle ,  C.Homer ,  A.Steel  &  S.BeckComplementary and Alternative Medicine Use amongst Infants, Children and Adolescents;  D.Adams ,  K.Kemper  &  S.Vohra'Getting on with Life': The Experience of Older People using Complementary Health Care;  T.CartwrightSection III: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Disease Context Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginTopical and Oral Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Acne;  P.Magin ,  J.Adams ,  D.Pond  &  W.SmithPatient Decision-making About Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Management;  L.Balneaves ,  L.Weeks  &  D.Seely  Mental Health and Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  J.Sarris  &  J.LakeComplementary and Alternative Medicine Use among HIV-positive People;  R.Littlewood  &  P.Vanable  Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Well-being;  R.HarveyPART II: PRACTICE, PROVISION AND THE PROFESSIONAL INTERFACESection IV: Traditional Medicine in ContextIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginBio-politics and the Promotion of Traditional Herbal Medicine in Vietnam;  A.WahlbergThe Inequalities of Medical Pluralism;  A.Broom ,  A.Doron  &  P.ToveyIn the Presence of Biomedicine: Ayurveda, Medical Integration and Health Seeking in Mysore, South India;  T.NisulaSection V: Exploring the Complementary and Alternative Medicine-conventional Medicine InterfaceIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  & B.Shelley,  A.Sussman ,  R.Williams ,  A.Segal  &  B.Crabtree  (on behalf of the RIOS Net Clinicians)The Ethics of Dietary Supplements and Natural Health Products in Pharmacy Practice;  H.Boon ,  K.Hirschkorn ,  G.Griener  &  M.CaliNostalgic and Nostophobic Referencing and the Authentication of Nurses' Use of Complementary Therapies;  P.Tovey  &  J.AdamsSection VI: Integrative Medicine Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginVariations in Provider Conceptions of Integrative Medicine;  A.Hsiao ,  G.Ryan ,  R.Hays ,  I.Coulter ,  R.Anderson  &  N.WengerWhich Medicine? Whose Standard? Critical Reflections on Medical Integration in China;  R.Fan  &  I.HollidayComplementary and Alternative Medicine Education;  D.Rakel ,  M.Guerrera ,  B.Bayles ,  G.Desai  &  E.FerraraPART III: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, RESEARCH DESIGN AND PERSPECTIVESSection VII: Evidence, Safety and RegulationIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Role of Evidence in Alternative Medicine;  C.BarryResearching Complementary and Alternative Treatments;  V.Fønnebø ,  S.Grimsgaard ,  H.Walach ,  C.Ritenbaugh ,  A.Norheim ,  H.MacPherson ,  G.Lewith ,  L.Launsø ,  M.Koithan ,  T.Falkenberg ,  H.Boon  &  M.AickinEvidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Promises and Problems;  I.Coulter  Indirect Risks of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  J.Wardle  &  J.AdamsThe Liberalisation of Regulatory Structure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  M.WeirSection VIII: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine in PerspectiveIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Geography of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Segrott ,  C.W.Lui  &  J.Adams  Re-positioning the Role of Traditional Medicine as Essential Health Knowledge in Global Health?;  D.Hollenberg ,  D.Zakus ,  T.Cook  &  X.W.Xu  Review of Economic Methods Used in Complementary Medicine;  C.Doran ,  D.Chang ,  H.Kiat  &  A.BensoussanSection IX: Future agendas: Key Debates and ThemesIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Future of Integrative Medicine;  I.Coulter  The Challenges of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research;  J.Wardle  &  D.SeelyResearch Capacity Building in Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Grass-roots Action towards a Broader Vision;  J.Adams ,  D.Sibbritt ,  A.Broom ,  J.Wardle ,  A.Steel ,  V.Murthy  &  J.Daley

'This wide-ranging international reader brings together a 'Who's Who' from contemporary Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) fields, with abridged versions of papers that have helped shape the field, as well as exciting new chapters to help blaze a trail in developing an empirical, rigorous and critical approach to this emerging area of health and health care. Practitioners, students, researchers and policymakers from around the globe can now quickly become au fait with a vast and diverse TCIM knowledge from just one source. This reader is timely directing the field at a critical moment in the TCIM debate, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to all students and colleagues interested in this critical aspect of twenty first century health care.' - Damien Ridge MBACP PhD, Professor of Health Studies, University of Westminster, London, UK. 'The increasing popularity of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine presents unique challenges and opportunities for a wide range of disciplines and approaches seeking to shed light on this topic. This International Reader, edited by a stellar team of investigators, provides an illuminating overview of the key debates and issues which will be of significant benefit to those seeking a foundational introduction into the landscape of TCIM scholarship as well as a capstone resource for those more established within the field of study. I have no doubt that this collection will play a crucial role in helping to further establish and guide the international health research community towards adopting and promoting a critical, multidisciplinary perspective upon this substantial area of health and health care. This text covers a substantial amount of ground in a fresh and dynamic way and will be an invaluable resource to health and health care students, scholars and practitioners alike.' - Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Professor of Health Sciences and Research Chair in Health Human Resource Policy, University of Ottawa, Canada.

JON ADAMS Professor of Public Health at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and holds an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship in CAM and women's health. He is Executive Director of the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM) www.norphcam.org and a Senior Fellow of the International Brisbane Initiative at the Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford. Jon is also National Convenor of the 'Evidence, Research and Policy in Complementary Medicine' Special Interest Group at the Public Health Association of Australia, Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journals Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies and BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine as well as Regional Co-Editor for the European Journal of Integrative Medicine.GAVIN J. ANDREWS Professor at McMaster University, Canada. Gavin was the inaugural Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society from 2006-2011. A health geographer and predominantly qualitative researcher, Gavin's wide-ranging interests include the dynamics between space/place and complementary medicine, aging, nursing, specific phobias, fitness, health histories, popular music and primary health care. Much of Gavin's work is positional and considers the development, state-of-the-art and future of his sub-discipline. Gavin's particular interests in complementary medicine include small business entrepreneurship, visualization practices, and the use of music as an everyday practice for wellbeing.JOANNE BARNES Associate Professor in Herbal Medicines at the School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is an honorary consultant to the World Health Organisation's Uppsala Monitoring Centre and a member of its herbal safety signal review panel. Joanne's research interests broadly include the utilisation, quality, efficacy, safety and pharmacovigilance of complementary medicines, particularly herbal medicinal products, and the roles and experiences of the pharmacist and other stakeholders in the safe and effective use of complementary medicines. Her work bridges the disciplines of pharmacognosy/natural products, pharmacovigilance/pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacy practice/health services research.ALEX BROOM Associate Professor of Sociology and Australia Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Australia. Alex specialises in the sociology of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) and the sociology of cancer and end-of-life care and he has led sociological studies of TCAM in Australia, the UK, Brazil, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Alex is currently leading a cross-cultural comparative study of medical pluralism in Australia, India and Brazil and a longitudinal qualitative study of end-of-life care in Australia.PARKER MAGIN General Practitioner and is Senior Lecturer and Director, Primary Health Care Research, Evaluation and Development Program, Discipline of General Practice, University of Newcastle, Australia and a Medical Educator, General Practice Training Valley to Coast, Newcastle, Australia. Parker is also a Key Collaborator with the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NORPHCAM), an Affiliated Researcher with the Brain and Mental Health Program, Hunter Medical Research Institute, and a Member of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Standing Committee - Research.

• Introduction; J.Adams,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginPART I: UTILISATION: POPULATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS Section I: Profile, Demographics and Motivations for Complementary and Alternative Medicine UseIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.Magin  The Profile of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Users and Reasons for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use;  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Adams ,  J.Segrott  &  C.W.LuiRelief, Risk and Renewal: Mixed Therapy Regimens in an Australian Suburb;  L.ConnorUtilising Existing Data Sets to Investigate Complementary and Alternative Medicine Consumption;  D.Sibbritt  &  J.AdamsSection II: Complementary and Alternative Medicine through the Life-cycle Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginWomen's Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine During Pregnancy;  J.Adams ,  C.W.Lui ,  D.Sibbritt ,  A.Broom ,  J.Wardle ,  C.Homer ,  A.Steel  &  S.BeckComplementary and Alternative Medicine Use amongst Infants, Children and Adolescents;  D.Adams ,  K.Kemper  &  S.Vohra'Getting on with Life': The Experience of Older People using Complementary Health Care;  T.CartwrightSection III: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Disease Context Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginTopical and Oral Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Acne;  P.Magin ,  J.Adams ,  D.Pond  &  W.SmithPatient Decision-making About Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Management;  L.Balneaves ,  L.Weeks  &  D.Seely  Mental Health and Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  J.Sarris  &  J.LakeComplementary and Alternative Medicine Use among HIV-positive People;  R.Littlewood  &  P.Vanable  Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine and Well-being;  R.HarveyPART II: PRACTICE, PROVISION AND THE PROFESSIONAL INTERFACESection IV: Traditional Medicine in ContextIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginBio-politics and the Promotion of Traditional Herbal Medicine in Vietnam;  A.WahlbergThe Inequalities of Medical Pluralism;  A.Broom ,  A.Doron  &  P.ToveyIn the Presence of Biomedicine: Ayurveda, Medical Integration and Health Seeking in Mysore, South India;  T.NisulaSection V: Exploring the Complementary and Alternative Medicine-conventional Medicine InterfaceIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  & B.Shelley,  A.Sussman ,  R.Williams ,  A.Segal  &  B.Crabtree  (on behalf of the RIOS Net Clinicians)The Ethics of Dietary Supplements and Natural Health Products in Pharmacy Practice;  H.Boon ,  K.Hirschkorn ,  G.Griener  &  M.CaliNostalgic and Nostophobic Referencing and the Authentication of Nurses' Use of Complementary Therapies;  P.Tovey  &  J.AdamsSection VI: Integrative Medicine Introduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginVariations in Provider Conceptions of Integrative Medicine;  A.Hsiao ,  G.Ryan ,  R.Hays ,  I.Coulter ,  R.Anderson  &  N.WengerWhich Medicine? Whose Standard? Critical Reflections on Medical Integration in China;  R.Fan  &  I.HollidayComplementary and Alternative Medicine Education;  D.Rakel ,  M.Guerrera ,  B.Bayles ,  G.Desai  &  E.FerraraPART III: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, RESEARCH DESIGN AND PERSPECTIVESSection VII: Evidence, Safety and RegulationIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Role of Evidence in Alternative Medicine;  C.BarryResearching Complementary and Alternative Treatments;  V.Fønnebø ,  S.Grimsgaard ,  H.Walach ,  C.Ritenbaugh ,  A.Norheim ,  H.MacPherson ,  G.Lewith ,  L.Launsø ,  M.Koithan ,  T.Falkenberg ,  H.Boon  &  M.AickinEvidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Promises and Problems;  I.Coulter  Indirect Risks of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  J.Wardle  &  J.AdamsThe Liberalisation of Regulatory Structure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  M.WeirSection VIII: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine in PerspectiveIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Geography of Complementary and Alternative Medicine;  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Segrott ,  C.W.Lui  &  J.Adams  Re-positioning the Role of Traditional Medicine as Essential Health Knowledge in Global Health?;  D.Hollenberg ,  D.Zakus ,  T.Cook  &  X.W.Xu  Review of Economic Methods Used in Complementary Medicine;  C.Doran ,  D.Chang ,  H.Kiat  &  A.BensoussanSection IX: Future agendas: Key Debates and ThemesIntroduction;  J.Adams ,  G.J.Andrews ,  J.Barnes ,  A.Broom  &  P.MaginThe Future of Integrative Medicine;  I.Coulter  The Challenges of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Research;  J.Wardle  &  D.SeelyResearch Capacity Building in Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Grass-roots Action towards a Broader Vision;  J.Adams ,  D.Sibbritt ,  A.Broom ,  J.Wardle ,  A.Steel ,  V.Murthy  &  J.Daley

'This wide-ranging international reader brings together a 'Who's Who' from contemporary Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) fields, with abridged versions of papers that have helped shape the field, as well as exciting new chapters to help blaze a trail in developing an empirical, rigorous and critical approach to this emerging area of health and health care. Practitioners, students, researchers and policymakers from around the globe can now quickly become au fait with a vast and diverse TCIM knowledge from just one source. This reader is timely directing the field at a critical moment in the TCIM debate, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to all students and colleagues interested in this critical aspect of twenty first century health care.' - Damien Ridge MBACP PhD, Professor of Health Studies, University of Westminster, London, UK. 'The increasing popularity of traditional, complementary and integrative medicine presents unique challenges and opportunities for a wide range of disciplines and approaches seeking to shed light on this topic. This International Reader, edited by a stellar team of investigators, provides an illuminating overview of the key debates and issues which will be of significant benefit to those seeking a foundational introduction into the landscape of TCIM scholarship as well as a capstone resource for those more established within the field of study. I have no doubt that this collection will play a crucial role in helping to further establish and guide the international health research community towards adopting and promoting a critical, multidisciplinary perspective upon this substantial area of health and health care. This text covers a substantial amount of ground in a fresh and dynamic way and will be an invaluable resource to health and health care students, scholars and practitioners alike.' - Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Professor of Health Sciences and Research Chair in Health Human Resource Policy, University of Ottawa, Canada.