| Description |
x, 302 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Contemporary issues in health, medicine, and social policy |
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Contemporary issues in health, medicine, and social policy.
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| Contents |
Introduction / J. Warren Salmon -- Scientific medicine since Flexner / Howard S. Berliner -- Homoeopathy / Harris L. Coulter -- Chiropractic / Ronald Lee Caplan -- Traditional Chinese medicine : a holistic system / Effie Poy Yew Chow -- Indigenous systems of healing : questions for professional, popular, and folk care / Arthur Kleinman -- Psychic healing / Daniel J. Benor -- Alternative medicine and the medical encounter in Britain and the United States / Rosemary C.R. Taylor -- Holistic health centers in the United States / James S. Gordon -- Defining health and reorganizing medicine / J. Warren Salmon |
| Summary |
Conventional scientific medicine is increasingly coming under attack for its high cost, perceived dehumanization, technological dependence, and its inability to cure many forms of ill health. At the same time, there is a resurgence of interest in a wide range of new and age-old approaches to health and healing. This book offers answers to two essential questions: how do alternative medicines challenge the tenets of conventional scientific medicine; and could a synthesis of these alternative medicines and scientific medicine lead to a reformulation of conceptions of healing? This is a crucial book for anyone concerned with the future direction of health policy. -- Publisher description |
| Analysis |
Acupuncture |
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China |
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Chiropractic |
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Complementary medicine |
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Great Britain |
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Overseas item |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Alternative medicine -- Social aspects.
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Alternative medicine.
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Holistic medicine.
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Holistic Health.
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Therapeutics.
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| Author |
Salmon, J. Warren (Jack Warren)
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| LC no. |
84016218 |
| ISBN |
0422787000 |
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0422787108 |
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