Introduction; Health Care in the Pre-Industrial Era; The Rise of the Medical Professions and Orthodox Biomedicine; The Marginalization of Alternative Medicine; The Development of a Medical Counter Culture; Health Policy Professionalization and the State; Conclusion
Summary
Drawing on the wider experience of other Western and Eastern countries, this book explores the interface between orthodox medicine and alternative medicine in Britain and the United States, outlining the development of these separate categories of medicine from a relatively undifferentiated past