Intro -- DOCTORING MEDICAL GOVERNANCE: MEDICAL SELF-REGULATION IN TRANSITION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DEDICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- FROM ANCIENT BEGINNINGS TO THE 1858 MEDICAL ACT -- Ancient Beginnings -- Galen's Humors -- Galenic Medicine and the Christian Worldview -- The Enlightenment and...

The debate over how to tame private medical spending tends to pit advocates of government-provided insurance — a single-payer scheme — against those who would prefer to harness market forces to hold down costs. When it is mentioned at all, the possibility of regulating the medical industry...

"This book gathers knowledge about CAM use in kidney diseases based on scientific evidence and provides critiqued research in this field and provide information to guide health professionals to decide whether or not their patients should use CAM. It helps the understanding of CAM use in...

Purpose - Personalized medicine (PM) encompasses a set of procedures, technologies and medications; the term became more prominent from the 2000s onwards and stems from the mapping of the human genome. The purposes of this study were to analyse the development stage of the process of...