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200 00$aAlternative therapies$b[electronic resource] $eexpanding options in health care /$f[edited by] Rena J. Gordon, Barbara Cable Nienstedt, Wilbert M. Gesler
210   $aNew York, NY $cSpringer Pub. Co.$dc1998
215   $a1 online resource (297 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8261-1164-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index.
327   $aContents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Tables; List of Figures; PART I: Introduction; PART II: Politics and the Law; PART III: The Changing Medical Marketplace; PART IV: The Culture Complex; PART V: Toward Complementary Medicine; References; Glossary of Alternative Practices; Index
330   $aIn 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.
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701   $aNienstedt$b Barbara Cable$01503740
701   $aGesler$b Wilbert M.$f1941-$01503741
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