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Author Saks, Mike

Title Orthodox and alternative medicine : politics, professionalization and health care
Published London : SAGE, 2003

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Description 1 online resource ([vi], 194 pages)
Contents 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
Notes Print version9781412901536
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Alternative medicine -- Great Britain -- History
Alternative medicine -- United States -- History
Medical care -- Great Britain -- History
Medical care -- United States -- History
Alternative medicine.
Medical care.
Great Britain.
United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002071607
ISBN 9781446211601
1446211606
9781446265369
1446265366
1412901537
9781412901536
1283880105
9781283880107