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FASTtrack: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Kayne, Steven B

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Steven B Kayne - Honorary Consultant Pharmacist, Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital; Honorary Lecturer, University of Strathclyde

Are your exams coming up? Are you drowning in textbooks and lecture notes and wondering where to begin? Take the FASTtrack route to successful study for your examinations.

FASTtrack is a new series of indispensable study guides created especially for pharmacy students.

Each book focuses on what pharmacy students really need to know in order to pass exams, providing concise, bulleted information, key points, tips and an all-important self-assessment section which includes MCQs, case studies, sample essay questions and worked examples.

The FASTtrack series provides the ultimate lecture notes and is a must-have for all pharmacy students wanting to study and test themselves for forthcoming exams.

Based on the successful textbook, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, this FASTtrack book is a concise guide to all the main types of Complementary and Alternative Medicine providing both theoretical and practical information.

Covering all areas of the pharmacy degree, the first titles in the series include:

  • Applied Pharmaceutical Practice (based on the textbook of the same name)
  • Law and Ethics in Pharmacy Practice
  • Managing Symptoms in the Pharmacy
  • Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing (based on the textbook of the same name)
  • Pharmaceutics - Dosage Form and Design
  • Pharmaceutics - Drug Delivery and Targeting
  • Pharmacology
  • Physical Pharmacy (based on Florence & Attwood's Physicochemical Principles of Pharmacy)
  • Therapeutics


Visit the FASTtrack website FASTtrack website for extra MCQs, sample online content and much more.

1. Introduction

2. Clinical Issues Associated with the Use of CAM

3. Introduction to Homeopathy

4. Prescribing and Dispensing Homeopathic Medicines

5. Introduction to Medical Herbalism

6. The Practice of Medical Herbalism

7. Aromatherapy

8. Flower Remedy Therapy

9. Traditional Medicine

10. Traditional Chinese Medicine

11. Indian Aruvedic Medicine

12. Manual Therapies

13. Naturopathy and Its Associated Medicines

14. Mind and Body Therapies

15. Diagnostic Methods

Adobe PDF Sample chapter (483 KB)
12-Dec-08, Chemist and Druggist
'FASTtrack Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) provides a succinct and interesting description of the theory and practice behind more than 40 commonly used therapies.'
Elizabeth Robinson, Chemist and Druggist, published online on 12th December 2008

21-Nov-08, Doody
'This book is well organised and contains very comprehensive review of the many types of alternative medicines. This has the potential to be my ö,gold standardö on CAM because it covers so well the basics on many different aspects of alternative medicines, as well as the details on various herbal remedies.'
Judith Klevan, BA Biology, BS Pharmacy Doody's Notes 21st November 2008
 
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ISBN 978 0 85369 774 9

Published Sep 2008

Paperback
234 x 156mm (208pp)