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Alternative Medicines: Popular and Policy Perspectives

Alternative Medicines: Popular and Policy Perspectives

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals

General Alternative HealthPlant Based Remedies

ISBN10: 1032280050
ISBN13: 9781032280059
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 1 2024
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Originally published in 1984, and now reissued with a new Preface, this was the first systematic and evaluative investigation of the holistic health movement - the first to put its contribution and limitations in both historical and current perspectives. The book answers 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? A historical survey of medical care up to the use of scientific medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries is followed by chapters on different traditions of alternative medicine: homeopathy, chiropractic, non-medical and spiritual healing, oriental medicine and self-care. Each considers the historical roots and development of the particular alternative medicine; describes its principles and how they relate to mainstream medicine. The concluding chapter considers social policy implications and political issues.

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