Alternative therapies : expanding options in health care /

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Imprint:	New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., ©1998.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Alternative medicine. Medical care -- Utilization. Alternative medicine. Medical care -- Utilization. Complementary Therapies -- trends. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185291

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Other authors / contributors:	Gordon, Rena J. Nienstedt, Barbara Cable. Gesler, Wilbert M., 1941-
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

Table of Contents:

Alternative therapies : why now? / Wilbert M. Gesler, Rena J. Gordon
Definitional dilemma of alternative medicine / Barbara Cable Nienstedt
Federal approach to alternative medicine : co-opting, quackbusting, or complementing? / Leonard D. Baer, Charles M. Good, Jr.
Paradigms and politics : redux of homeopathy in american medicne / Kristen S. Borre, James L. Wilson
Marketing channels for alternative health care / Rena J. Gordon, Gail Silverstein
Regional distribution of alternative health care / Alan Rice Osborn
Demand for alternative therapies : the case of childbirth / Dona Schneider
Social and cultural aspects of alternative therapies / Jull M. Hyatt, Mary M. Hale
Building medical systems at the household level / Clarissa T. Kimber
Redefining the healing process : healer-client relationships in alternative medicine / Joan D. Koss-Chioino
Rediscovering nightingale : back to the future / Barbara Stevens Barnum
Biomedical physicians practicing holistic medicine / Ronald L. Caplan, Wilbert M. Gesler
Medical education : changes and responses / Evan W. Kligman
Case study / Jerry M. Calkins
Alternative therapies : Quo Vadis? / Rena J. Gordon.

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