Wisneski The Scientific Basis of Integrative Health

3. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4987-6722-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 740 Seiten

This third edition has been extensively updated and expanded to provide a comprehensive guide to integrative medicine. Taking a balanced and objective approach, this leading text bridges the gap between Western science and Eastern philosophy. It provides doctors and other health practitioners with information on complementary and alternative approaches to health, that is authoritative, evidence based, and epidemiologically substantiated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wisneski, Leonard

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenhausmanagement, Praxismanagement
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Review of Classic Physiological Systems, Systems Integration: Psychoneuroimmunology, The Stress System, The Relaxation System: Theoretical Construct, The Relaxation System: Therapeutic Modalities, Energy Medicine: Cutting-Edge Modalities, Energy Medicine: Focus on Non-thermal Electromagnetic Therapies, Energy Medicine: Focus on Lasers, The Four Pillars and Two Guideposts for the Healing Professions™, The Pineal Gland: Energy Transducer, Soul Medicine: Crossing the Boundary, Human Epigenetics in Health and Disease, History and Philosophy of Naturopathic Medicine, Wellbeing, Assessing the Toxic Load and Detoxification Strategies, Precision Nutrition, The Landscape of Integrative Medicine in America with a Shift to Prevention and Health Promotion, Whole Person Caring, Energy Medicine: Focus on Lasers.

Über Autor(innen)

Leonard A. Wisneski, MD, FACP is Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center, Georgetown University where he is a founding member of the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Curriculum Planning Committee and has taught a course in integrative medicine for several years. He also holds faculty positions in the Department of Medicine as well as The Department of Nursing at The University of Colorado. He was Vice Chairman of the NIH Consensus Panel on Acupuncture and was Chairman of the NIH Advisory Board on Frontier Sciences at the University of Connecticut. He holds fellowship positions in The American College of Physicians, The American College of Nutrition, and The American Institute of Stress. He served on the board of the American Holistic Medical Association and was President of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. He is currently Chairman of the Board of the Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium which promotes national legislation pertaining to integrative healthcare. He is a Research Advisor to The International Hyperbaric Medicine Association, serves on the advisory board of The Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Healthcare and the World Institute for Scientific Exploration. He has published over 30 scientific articles and a textbook, “The Scientific Basis of Integrative Medicine”. He has been in the clinical practice of endocrinology and integrative medicine for over 30 years.

Dr. Wisneski co-founded and served as the regional president and medical director of American WholeHealth, an integrative, multi- practitioner center devoted to fostering individuals in the achievement of health and life goals. His medical practice in endocrinology and integrative medicine embodies the true meaning of integral medicine – an optimal synthesis of conventional and alternative medicine practiced with a whole person approach delivered with reverence and humanism. He also served in the role of Medical Director and Chief Medical Editor of Integrative Medicine Communications, a publishing company which produced textbooks and newsletters devoted to this emerging field of medicine.

Dr. Wisneski graduated from Thomas Jefferson Medical College and performed his postgraduate training in the field of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology in the George Washington University healthcare system, where he served as Chief Medical Resident in Internal Medicine. From 1977 until 1997, Dr. Wisneski was the Corporate Medical Director of Marriott International, Inc., and Director of Medical Education at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, an affiliate of George Washington University Medical School and Children’s National Medical Center where he devoted his efforts to teaching the fundamentals of internal medicine as well as integrative medicine.

Dr. Wisneski serves on the steering committee of the National Coordinating Center for Integrative Medicine, administered by the American College of Preventive Medicine, whose mission it is to facilitate education of integrative and preventive healthcare in postgraduate medical education in several medical schools.