Resources
- Alt HealthWatch
Alternative health research database. Covers complementary and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Includes full-text articles offering the latest information on holistic medicine and therapies.
- Health Source: Consumer Edition
Consumer health information database. Covers a wide variety of subjects and information on specific diseases as well as overall health topics. Includes magazines, reference books. pamphlets and access to Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary.
- Nursing and Allied Health Premium
Health research database. Covers the fields of nursing and allied health, as well as alternative and complementary medicine. Includes trade journals, books, full-length training videos, reports, pamphlets and ephemeral works, and websites.
- Healthstar (OVID)
Health research database. Covers the topics of patient outcomes, effectiveness of processes, health care administration, health policy, health economics and quality assurance. Focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery and includes citations from the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) MEDLINE.
- The Japanese Reiki TechniquesThe article offers information on Usui Sensei, founder of Reiki in Japan. It mentions that Usui used philosophy, religion and meta-physical practices to develop a healing system based on the special healing energy. It offers information on Gassho which refers to joining two hands for prayer and chanting and for meditation.
Source: Reiki news, 10(2), 28-33. - tai chi & HEALTH: Manage your qi for vitality and longevityExplains the age-old Chinese practice of tai chi and discusses its health benefits for vitality and longevity. Highlights the benefits of the practice in managing chronic illnesses, as revealed by several studies, and reports its use in relieving stress. The article mentions the three styles of tai chi, Chen, Yang, and Wu, all of which focus on cultivating 'qi' or life force. The healing mechanism of tai chi and its meditative aspect are also explored.
Source: Alive: Canada's Natural Health & Wellness Magazine, (342), 78-83. - Longing for Health. A Practice of Religious Healing and Biomedicine ComparedIn this article, this notion is questioned by comparing in the Netherlands one practice of religious healing, namely the ‘Services of salvation and healing’ of the Pentecostal Levensstroom gemeente (Livingstream Church) of Jan Zijlstra, and one practice of biomedicine, namely the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Cancer Hospital (AvL). What are the differences and possible similarities between these two? Starting from a cultural approach and after the description of these two practices, they are compared with respect to four points: concepts and objects, means and methods, ‘healers’ and patients, and effects and expectations.
Source: Journal of religion & health, 47(3), 326-337.
- The Healing Arts (Video series)
From acupuncture to herbal treatments to mind-body techniques and religious faith, this classic nine-part series from the BBC explores the world of alternative and non-Western medicine.
- The National Collaborating Centre for Indigenous Health (NCCIH)The NCCIH is a national Indigenous organization established in 2005 by the Government of Canada and funded through the Public Health Agency of Canada to support First Nations, Inuit, and Métis public health renewal and health equity through knowledge translation and exchange.