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FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ISBN: 978-1-437-70577-5

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Fundamentals of complementary and alternative medicine / [edited by] Marc S. Micozzi ; with forewords by C. Everett Koop, Aviad Haramati, and George Lundberg. 4th ed.

p. ; cm.

Rev. ed. of: Fundamentals of complementary and integrative medicine. c2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4377-0577-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Alternative medicine. I. Micozzi, Marc S., 1953- II. Fundamentals of complementary and integrative medicine.

[DNLM: 1. Complementary Therapies. WB 890 F981 2011]

R733.F86 2011

615.5 dc22

2009043446

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