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Titolo: | Alternative therapies : expanding options in health care / / [edited by] Rena J. Gordon, Barbara Cable Nienstedt, Wilbert M. Gesler |
Pubblicazione: | New York, NY, : Springer Pub. Co., c1998 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
Disciplina: | 615.5 |
Soggetto topico: | Alternative medicine |
Medical care - Utilization | |
Altri autori: | GordonRena J NienstedtBarbara Cable GeslerWilbert M. <1941-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-254) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Alternative therapies |
ISBN: | 1-281-80600-5 |
9786611806002 | |
0-8261-1729-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816941503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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