The following resources are particularly useful for conventionally trained healthcare providers who are interested in learning more about complementary therapies.
Books
General
Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Wayne B. Jonas (Ed) and Jeffrey S. Levin (Ed). Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. 1999.
Includes discussion of social and scientific foundations, and reviews a wide spectrum of therapies.
Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Primary Care. Primary Care Clinics in Office Practice, December 1997.
Each chapter reviews a different complementary therapy.
Naturopathy
Textbook of Natural Medicine. Joseph E. Pizzorno, ND, Michael T. Murray, ND. Churchill Livingstone, 1999 (2nd edition).
Cancer
Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches in Cancer Care. Michael Lerner, MIT Press, 1994
Overview of complementary approaches to cancer treatment. Written for the cancer patient who is receiving convention care and is seeking out other options. Written in a way that is highly responsible and very compassionate.
Western Herbal Medicine
Herbal Therapeutics: Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy. Simon Mills, Kerry Bone. WB Saunders, 1999.
Textbook written by two internationally recognized experts in the field of herbal medicine.
Professional Newsletters
Integrated Medicine Consult. (914)834-3100.
FACT: Focus on Alternative and Complementary Therapies.
Journals
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. (800)899-1712.
Videos
Alternative Medicine: Implications for Clinical Practice. 14 videocassettes (22 hrs, 46 min). A video conference directed by David Eisenberg, MD, Harvard Medical School. Available through Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Medical Education
Web Sites
(Most sites provide links to additional sites not listed below)
NIH funded centers (The following list of Centers is evolving. An up-to-date list is available through the NCCAM Web site.)
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), NIH
http://nccam.nih.gov
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program at Stanford (CAMPS)
Specialty: Aging
Stanford University
http://camps.stanford.edu
Bastyr University AIDS Research Center
Bastyr University (for Naturopathic Medicine)
Medical Acupuncture
http://www.medicalacupuncture.org
Acupuncture homepage
http://www.acupuncture.com
American College for Advancement in Medicine
http://www.acam.org
Quackwatch
http://www.quackwatch.com