Healing Research: What We Know and Don't Know

Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 341-352

  Dossey, Larry ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; EDITORIAL; EMPATHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PARAPSYCHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZATION; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL HEALING;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RELIGION; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54849418884     PISSN: 15508307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2008.09.009     Document Type: Editorial

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