Resources: In Literature

• "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among Adults: United States, 2002" from the CDC newsletter Advance Data

• February 4, 2003, New York Times article on meditation and brain function,, "Finding Happiness: Cajole Your Brain to Lean to the Left," by Daniel Goleman

• New York Times article, dated December 17, 2002, on “The Heavy Cost of Chronic Stress.”

• “Is Integrative Medicine the Medicine of the Fuure?”
  A debate between Arnold Relman, M.D., and Andrew Weil, M.D.
  From the Archives of Internal Medicine, Oct 11, 1999 v159 i18 p2122 – 2127.

• The January 10 issue of Science (Vol. 299) includes three articles on complementary/alternative medicine, “The New Face of Traditional Chinese Medicine” (pages 188 - 190), a book review on The History of Alternative Medicine in America, by James Wharton (page 204), and an article entitled, “Toward Evidence-Based Health Claims for Foods” (pages 206 – 207).

• The December 3, 2002 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine offers a review of 200 studies of 12 of the most commonly used alternative therapies often used in the treatment of cancer-related symptoms and conditions. Therapies were classified in one of three ways: “possibly beneficial,” “probably harmless,” “risky or ineffective.” The article, entitled, “Advising patients who seek complementary and alternative medical therapies for cancer,” is authored by Weiger, WA, Smith, M, Boon, H, Richardson, MA, Kaptchuk, TJ, and Eisenberg, DM. (Vol.137, No. 11, pages 889 - 903).