Rena Gordon & Barbara Nienstedt 
Alternative Therapies [PDF ebook] 
Expanding Options in Health Care

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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. The book serves as a primer for an array of health professionals and students as well as provides new insights to those familiar with alternative health practices.

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Introduction:

  • Alternative Therapies: Why Now?, Wilbert M. Gesler and Rena J. Gordon

  • The Definitional Dilemma of Alternative Medicine, Barbara Cable Nienstedt
  • Politics and the Law:

  • The Federal Approach to Alternative Medicine: Co-opting, Quackbusting, or Complementing?, Barbara Cable Nienstedt

  • The Power of the State, Leonard D. Baer and Charles M. Good, Jr.

  • Paradigms and Politics: Redux of Homeopathy in American Medicine, Kirsten S. BorrÈ and James L. Wilson
  • The Changing Medical Marketplace:

  • Marketing Channels for Alternative Health Care, Rena J. Gordon and Gail Silverstein

  • The Regional Distribution of Alternative Health Care, Alan Rice Osborn

  • Demand for Alternative Therapies: The Case of Childbirth, Dona Schneider
  • The Culture Complex:

  • Social and Cultural Aspects of Alternative Therapies, Jill M. Hyatt and 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
  • Toward Complementary Medicine:

  • Rediscovering Nightingale: Back to the Future, Barbara Stevens Barnum

  • Biomedical Physicians Practicing Holistic Medicine, Ronald L. Caplan and Wilbert M. Gesler

  • Medical Education: Changes and Responses, Evan W. Kligman

  • Alternative Therapies: Quo Vadis?, Rena J. Gordon

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