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Toward an Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine

Toward an Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine

Baer, Hans A.

Paperback

Health GeneralAnthropology

ISBN10: 075910302X
ISBN13: 9780759103023
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: Jan 1 2004
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.26 Depth: 8.86
Language: English
This book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement over the past three decades, as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. In it, he describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the biomedical profession's increasing interest in the possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system. Baer examines a variety of professionalized and lay heterodox therapeutic systems, including chiropractors, naturopaths and acupuncturists, homeopaths, bodyworkers, and lay midwives. He shows, ironically, how the holistic movement may become more limited as it gains acceptance and becomes integrated into mainstream, professional medicine. This book is a valuable resource for instructors, students, professionals and others interested in public health issues, health policy, medical studies, health economics, medical anthropology and sociology.

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