Churchill Livingstone is an imprint

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 of a medical publishing

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 company

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 owned by Elsevier

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 Ltd

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, but previously owned by Harcourt

Harcourt (publisher)

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 and Pearson

Pearson PLC

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. It was formed in 1971 from the merger of E & S Livingstone, Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, Scotland

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, and J & A Churchill, London

London

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, England

England

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. It is but now integrated with the rest of Elsevier's health science division. Responsible for publishing a number of classic

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 medical texts

Text (literary theory)

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 including Sir William Osler's textbook

Textbook

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 The Principles and Practice of Medicine

The Principles and Practice of Medicine

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. The imprint is also responsible for the publication of practical texts on treatments that skeptics consider of questionable clinical efficacy

Clinical trial

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, such as David Owen's homeopathy

Homeopathy

Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine in which practitioners claim to treat patients using highly diluted preparations that are believed to cause healthy people to exhibit symptoms that are similar to those exhibited by the patient...

 textbook Principles and practice of homeopathy: The therapeutic and healing process and Peter E. Baldry's Acupuncture, trigger points and musculoskeletal pain, which contains evidence-based descriptions of acupuncture applications to trigger points for musculo-skeletal pain relief.