Story: Alternative health therapies

More links and websites

• Complementary and Alternative Health Care in New Zealand

  The 2004 advice of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Health to the Minister of Health on issues relating to alternative health therapies.

• Natural Health NZ

  Information about natural health products and therapies.

• Natural Health Practitioners New Zealand Inc

  A non-profit society that supports and represents natural health-care professionals.

• New Zealand Society of Clinical & Applied Hypnotherapy Inc

  This society is dedicated to furthering clinical hypnotherapy and establishing standards of practice that are acceptable to traditional health providers.

More suggestions and sources

• Complementary and alternative health care in New Zealand: advice to the Minister of Health. Wellington: Ministerial Advisory Committee on Complementary and Alternative Health, 2004.
• Dew, Kevin. Borderland practices: regulating alternative therapies in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2003.
• ‘From arsenic to zinc.’ Consumer 363 (September 1997): 24–27.
• Leibrich, Julie, Janet Hickling, and George Pitt. In search of well-being: exploratory research into complementary therapies. Wellington: Health Services Research and Development Unit, Department of Health, 1987.
• North, Nicola, Immigrant doctors practicing non-western medicine: a study of self-employed immigrant Chinese and Indian doctors practicing non-biomedical traditions of medicine. Palmerston North: New Settlers Programme, Massey University, 2008.