Alternative therapies: expanding options in health care
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Springer Pub. Co. c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index
Alternative therapies : why now? - Wilbert M. Gesler, Rena J. Gordon -- - Definitional dilemma of alternative medicine - Barbara Cable Nienstedt -- - Federal approach to alternative medicine : co-opting, quackbusting, or complementing? - Leonard D. Baer, Charles M. Good, Jr. -- - Paradigms and politics : redux of homeopathy in american medicne - Kristen S. Borre, James L. Wilson -- - Marketing channels for alternative health care - Rena J. Gordon, Gail Silverstein -- - Regional distribution of alternative health care - Alan Rice Osborn -- - Demand for alternative therapies : the case of childbirth - Dona Schneider -- - Social and cultural aspects of alternative therapies - Jull M. Hyatt, Mary M. Hale -- - Building medical systems at the household level - Clarissa T. Kimber -- - Redefining the healing process : healer-client relationships in alternative medicine - Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- - Rediscovering nightingale : back to the future - Barbara Stevens Barnum -- - Biomedical physicians practicing holistic medicine - Ronald L. Caplan, Wilbert M. Gesler -- - Medical education : changes and responses - Evan W. Kligman -- - Case study - Jerry M. Calkins -- - Alternative therapies : Quo Vadis? - Rena J. Gordon
In this volume, an interdisciplinary team of scholars and social scientists address the reasons and ramifications of the increasing utilization of alternative and complementary medicine. The book provides a scholarly and theoretical discussion of salient issues within this new field. Topics discussed include:.: the changing medical market place; political and legal aspects of practice; influential cultural factors; clinical and educational issues; and much more. The many case examples and vignettes that appear throughout the text illustrate how alternative health care relates to everyday life
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ISBN:0826111645
0826117295
9780826111647
9780826117298

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