Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section one: Foundations -- Characteristics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- Translation from Conventional Medicine -- Issues and Challenges in Integrative Medicine -- CAM and the Community -- Social and Cultural Factors in Medicine -- Section two: Mind, body, and spirit -- Vitalism -- Mind-Body Thought and Practice: Great Britain to Early and Late America -- . Neurohumoral Physiology and Psychoneuroimmunology -- Mind-Body Sciences and the Placebo Effect -- Mind-Body Therapies, Stress, and Pyschometrics -- Prayer, Religion, and Spirituality -- Creative and Expressive Arts Therapies -- Humor, health, and wellness -- Section three: Energetics, manual healing, bodywork, and yoga -- Energy Medicine -- Biophysics: Electricity, Light, Magnetism, and Sound -- Principles and Bodywork -- Massage, Bodywork, and Touch Therapies -- Osteopathy -- Chiropractic -- Reflexology -- Yoga -- Section four: Natural and alternative western therapies -- Nature Cure, Naturopathy, and Natural Medicines -- Contemporary Naturopathic Medicine -- Ethnobotany and Western Herbalism -- Aromatherapy and Plant Essential Oils -- Nutrition, Hydration, and Diet Therapies -- Ecological Pharmacology: Molecular Biology to Systems Theory -- Section five: Global ethnomedical systems: Asia and the Middle East -- Traditional Medicine of China and East Asia -- Classical Acupuncture -- Traditional Medicine of India: Ayurveda and Siddha -- Tibetan Medicine -- Unani Medicine -- Sufism and Healing in the Middle East -- Section six: Global ethnomedical systems: Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific -- Traditional Medicine: Ethnomedicine, Shamanism, and Origins -- Southeast Asia: Malaysia, Indonesia, Indochina, and Vietnam -- Blending of Chinese, Ayurvedic, Islamic, and Shamanic Healing: Burma, Thailand, and Nepal -- Native North American Healing and Herbal Remedies -- Central and South American Healing and Herbal Remedies -- Latin American Curanderismo -- Hawaii, South Pacific and Philippine Islands; Alaska and Pacific Northwest -- African Healing and Becoming a Traditional Healer -- Magico-Religious Traditions and Neo-Shamanism -- Modern Asia, Africa, Americas, and the Pacific.