Alternative Therapies: Expanding Options in Health Care

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 16
List of Figures......Page 18
PART I: Introduction......Page 20
1 Alternative Therapies: Why Now?......Page 22
2 The Definitional Dilemma of Alternative Medicine......Page 32
PART II: Politics and the Law......Page 44
3 The Federal Approach to Alternative Medicine: Co-opting, Quackbusting, or Complementing?......Page 46
4 The Power of the State......Page 64
5 Paradigms and Politics: Redux of Homeopathy in American Medicine......Page 86
PART III: The Changing Medical Marketplace......Page 104
6 Marketing Channels for Alternative Health Care......Page 106
7 The Regional Distribution of Alternative Health Care......Page 124
8 Demand for Alternative Therapies: The Case of Childbirth......Page 136
PART IV: The Culture Complex......Page 148
9 Social and Cultural Aspects of Alternative Therapies......Page 150
10 Building Medical Systems at the Household Level......Page 168
11 Redefining the Healing Process: Healer–Client Relationships in Alternative Medicine......Page 182
PART V: Toward Complementary Medicine......Page 194
12 Rediscovering Nightingale: Back to the Future......Page 196
13 Biomedical Physicians Practicing Holistic Medicine......Page 208
14 Medical Education: Changes and Responses......Page 218
15 Alternative Therapies: Quo Vadis?......Page 238
References......Page 254
Glossary of Alternative Practices......Page 274
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