Translating "mind-in-body": Two models of patient experience underlying a randomized controlled trial of qigong

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 419-447

  Kerr, Catherine ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Embodiment; Qigong; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EXERCISE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEISURE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; SURVIVOR; TAI CHI; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BOSTON; EXERCISE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MIND-BODY AND RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; QI; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RELAXATION; SURVIVORS; TAI JI;

EID: 0036983548     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021772324119     Document Type: Article

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