Biomedicine and alternative healing systems in America : issues of class, race, ethnicity, and gender /
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| Author / Creator: | Baer, Hans A., 1944- |
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| Imprint: | Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2001. |
| Description: | xii, 222 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4466561 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Nineteenth-Century American Medicine as a Pluralistic System
- 2. The Rise of the American Dominative Medical System under Corporate Capitalism
- 3. Osteopathic Medicine as a Parallel Medical System
- 4. Chiropractic as the Foremost Professionalized Heterodox Medical System
- 5. Naturopathy and Acupuncture as Secondary Professionalized Heterodox Medical Systems
- 6. Partially Professionalized and Lay Heterodox Medical Systems within the Context of the Holistic Health Movement
- 7. Anglo-American Religious and Metaphysical Healing Systems
- 8. Folk Medical Systems in a Culturally Diverse Society
- 9. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
