Alternative therapies : expanding options in health care /
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Imprint: | New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., ©1998. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185291 |
Other authors / contributors: | Gordon, Rena J. Nienstedt, Barbara Cable. Gesler, Wilbert M., 1941- |
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ISBN: | 9780826117298 0826117295 0826111645 9780826111647 |
Digital file characteristics: | data file |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record. |
Summary: | In this volume, an interdisciplinary team of scholars and social scientists address the reasons and ramifications of the increasing utilization of alternative and complementary medicine. The book provides a scholarly and theoretical discussion of salient issues within this new field. Topics discussed include:.: the changing medical market place; political and legal aspects of practice; influential cultural factors; clinical and educational issues; and much more. The many case examples and vignettes that appear throughout the text illustrate how alternative health care relates to everyday life. |
Other form: | Print version: Alternative therapies. New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., ©1998 0826111645 9780826111647 |
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