| Description |
1 online resource (297 pages) |
| Contents |
Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Tables; List of Figures; PART I: Introduction; PART II: Politics and the Law; PART III: The Changing Medical Marketplace; PART IV: The Culture Complex; PART V: Toward Complementary Medicine; References; Glossary of Alternative Practices; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Alternative medicine.
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Medical care -- Utilization.
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Complementary Therapies
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Alternative medicine
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Medical care -- Utilization
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nienstedt, Barbara
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Gesler, Wilbert
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| LC no. |
97041351 |
| ISBN |
9780826117298 |
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0826117295 |
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1281806005 |
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9781281806000 |
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9786611806002 |
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6611806008 |
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