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Reference	Format	Professional or Consumer	Notes/Comments	Your Initials
Herring, M and Roberts, M. Blackwell Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Fast Facts for Medical Practice. Blackwell Science Inc, 2002.	Print	Professional		LH
Institute of Medicine. Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public .(2005) Complementary and alternative medicine in the United States / Committee on the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.	Print, Online	Professional	Free online but difficult to navigate: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11182#toc	LH
Kaptchuk, T.J., Eisenberg, DM. Varieties of Healing: 1: Medical Pluralism in the United States. Annals of Internal Medicine. 7 August 2001.; 135(3):189	Print or Online	Professional	Journal artlcle providing an overview of current interest in alternative therapies and the change from "antagonism" to "acknowledgement of postmodern medical diversity."	JW, JDS
Longe, J. L. (2005). The Gale encyclopedia of alternative medicine. Detroit: Thomson Gale.	print	Professional and Consumer	4 volumes, comprehensive and easy to understand. Good for consumers and for non-CAM health professionals.	LH
Ernst, E., Pittler, M. H., & Wider, B. (2006). The desktop guide to complementary and alternative medicine: an evidence-based approach. [Edinburgh]: Mosby Elsevier.	Print	Professional and Consumer	Good review in JAMA 2001 v. 286(16) regarding 2001 edition: "Ernst and colleagues have written a 'best of class' text that will serve both groups well and hopefully be the first edition of many."	MR, LH
Bratman, S. ;Geller, J. (eds) (2008) Natural & Alternative Treatments. Ipswich,MA: EBSCO	Online	Consumer	700 monographs on CAM treatments. Access by category - medical conditions, herbs/supplements, drug interactions, functional foods, alternative treatments. Entries in English and Spanish with 12,000 references.	JW
Bivens, R. (2007) History of Alternative Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press	Print	Professional or Scholarly reader	This short history follows several alternative therapies through history and analyses the factors that influenced whether they were adopted by main stream medicine or shunned. Therapies include moxabustion, acupuncture, and homeopathy.	JW