FASTtrack: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

FASTtrack: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Edition: First edtion
Steven B Kayne - Honorary Consultant Pharmacist, Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital; Honorary Lecturer, University of Strat

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 revision/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)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (based on the textbook of the same name)
Law and Ethics in Pharmacy Practice (due March 2010)
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

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

Reviews:
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

Contents:
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: