Includes bibliographical references and index.

Blind men and elephants : attempting to capture CAM in an enlightenment box / Paul Kadetz -- At the boundaries of integrated general practice / Peter Herbert -- Pillars of proof : safety, efficacy, quality and the construction of TM/CAM policy decisions / Paul Kadetz -- Issues in spirituality research in the biomedical context / Landis M.F. Vance -- Using psychosocial models and methods to evaluate complementary medicine / Philip Harris and Katie Thirlaway -- Health psychology and interpretative phenomenological analysis / Megan A. Arroll -- Traditional Chinese medicine : challenges for research / Fan Qu and Nicola Robinson -- Researching Chinese herbal medicine / Andrew Flower -- Clinical research evidence in homeopathy / Robert T. Mathie -- Medicinal plants : from laboratory to clinical trial / Conti Sefora, Vexler Akiva, Edry-Botzer Liat, and Lev-Ari Shahar -- Research into the clinical linkage between visceral dysfunction and somatic symptomology / Peter W. McCarthy -- Manual medicine : past and future / Mark J. Langweiler -- Craniosacral therapy / Mariann Sisco -- Assessing Ayurveda, mapping the woods or counting the trees : need and approach / Narendra S. Bhatt -- Methodological challenges and research design in research studies of qigong therapy / Kevin W. Chen -- Research methodology for tai chi chuan / B. Roberts, R.Song, S. Ahn, and P. Lam -- Yoga - a review of the research / Alison Trewhela.