Books by Jon Adams

The book outlines the core issues, challenges and opportunities facing the CIM-women¿s health field and its study and will provide insight and inspiration for those practicing, studying and/or researching the contemporary relations between CIM and women¿s health and health care.

The six stories and twelve illustrations of Bird Tales are intended for five to nine year olds. The book attempts to present the world as children see it, and at the same time, to make them more aware of birds and the natural world they live in. Bird Tales Why the Blue Heron is Blue Why the Kingfisher is King Why the Woodpecker Pecks Why the Cuckoo says Cuckoo Why the Crow says Caw Caw Why the Blackbird Sings

Globalization and the ever decreasing need for human workers have impacted, perhaps especially the Western world, like a slow moving earthquake. So much now seems uncertain and the future approaches as a fearsome threat. So many are aware, only of their lack of power and ability to effect any change in a seemingly inevitable time of deep uncertainty.This has led many to seek stability in a search for their past, a quest to discover those from whom they descended, and a sense that they are not alone.This is not a pointless quest. Who am I, where do I come from, and how should I understand the ancestors who shaped me, are questions human beings have asked from time immemorial. In "So Let Me Just Say" I have attempted to find answers to some of these questions and ask (usually myself) why the people I have interacted with acted the way they did. I have done this, mainly for my family, but hopefully it is interesting for others as well. It is also true that others have memories that can complete our own inner jigsaw puzzle. At times I have simply sought to reclaim the world as it was, or at least as I understood it, so that that world would not be lost and probably misunderstood. What I have experienced cannot be understood without an awareness of the place God has had in my life. In this regard the essay at the beginning of the book is really a questioning of what makes us who we are, and what God''s thoughts may be on how we view others. In the face of a rapidly changing world, stability, peace and understanding can still be found and community discovered in a knowing of God, and a deeper understanding of ourselves.

Introduces readers to the social, cultural and historical underpinnings of 'evidence' in healthcare, critically examining questions about what constitutes 'evidence' and 'effectiveness' from perspectives outside medicine, including those of patients, complementary medicine and midwifery.