title: Complementary Therapies in Context Helen Graham Complementary Therapies in Context Jessica Kingsley 350pp , £16.95 1-85302-6409 1853026409.
abstract: Helen Graham addresses a wide range of topics and themes which underpin concepts of healing. Part I offers a well informed and succinct overview of perspectives of healing. Ms Graham summarises the key elements of ancient and modern approaches to healing before addressing both Eastern and Western approaches to this topic. This is a fascinating section and places recent developments in medicine within a sociocultural context.