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Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: Principles and Practice

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What a wonderful book! With chapters on every kind of alternative/complimentary med you can think of, this book lets you know what the thought behind the process is. Now you understand! Now you can choose! I found this book to be a bit tough for the layman but certainly worth the possible struggle to understand some of the terminology. I thought this book was so worthwhile that I bought it for my traditional vet and he thought the material helped to build a bridge of understanding between the practioner of traditional medicine and the alternative practice. If you're looking for facts as presented by the practioners of alternative therpaies, this book shouldn't be missed. Yes, it's pricey but it offers a reference that no other book can beat!

This well written book provides an easy to read overview of a wide variety of non-conventional therapies. Each chapter is written by someone with experience in that specific area. References and suggested readings are provided for those who wish to investigate a modality in more depth. While it is not an instruction manual for alternative medicine, this book provides enough information to help a veterinarian advise a client interested in seeking other options for their animals. It is a valuable reference book for any verterinarian planning to practice in the next millenium.

This 800 page textbook is well organized and is the most complete reference manual for the latest alternative therapies. A must have for professionals and quite helpful for the layman as well.

A mine of information, very technical and thorough for all vets interested in alternative medicine and those who wish to learn more about it. I bought it 5 years ago and still have a lot of pleasure to read it again.Chapters after chapters, you fully understand that the holistic approach of a sick animal is the only worthwhile and that the complete cure is a reachable goal,not simply alleviate or mask symptoms like in the allopathic way. A book for what the future approach of patients and care will be in the 21st century.

A veterinarian from Europe

Anyone interested in the field should buy this book. I can be read by proff's as well as others, but having a university degree doesn't exactly make it more difficult, of cause. The book goes through lots of different fields of alt. med., and remembers the references as well as selected readings. So go get it, you won't regret it (though it is pretty expencive).

The author discusses many insightful techniques that should be used in pet medicine worldwide. He speaks of techniques that incorporate bio energy and accupressue. Often these methods are rebuked by vets who have no understanding or care about eastern (eg. chinese) medicine. This system of healing has been around for thousands of years! Buy this book and others by him.

This is a wonderful text on complementary medical therapies for pets, with numerous contributions by various experts. I highly recommend it and as a fellow holistic veterinarian and author (8 Weeks to a Healthy Dog, The Allergy Solution for Dogs, and the award-winning The Natural Health Bible for Dogs & Cats,) I found the information quite useful and referenced much of the material in my own writings.

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The Veterinary Institute for Therapeutic Alternatives describes this book as a "comprehensive text introducting veterinarians to the scientific basis and clinical applications of many of the techniques in CAM (complementary and alternative medicine). Would that this were so. The sad truth is that Schoen and Wynn is long on the promotion of unproven and disproven methods, and extremely short on legitimate science or even accurate informantion. Most of the "science" offered is either distorted or outright pseudoscientific nonsense. (To cite just one of many possible examples, many chapters deal with indistinguishable-from-imaginary "bio-energy fields" which the authors dress up with scientific-sounding jargon.) The shortcomings of this book are so severe and comprehensive that the National Council for Reliable Health Information's Veterinary Task Force has devoted a Website entirely to individual chapter-by-chapter reviews of Schoen and Wynn written by concerned scientists, veterinary practitioners, and academicians.