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Toward an Integrative Medicine
Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine
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About this book
This book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement over the past three decades, as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. In it, he describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the biomedical profession's increasing interest in the possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system. Baer examines a variety of professionalized and lay heterodox therapeutic systems, including chiropractors, naturopaths and acupuncturists, homeopaths, bodyworkers, and lay midwives. He shows, ironically, how the holistic movement may become more limited as it gains acceptance and becomes integrated into mainstream, professional medicine. This book is a valuable resource for instructors, students, professionals and others interested in public health issues, health policy, medical studies, health economics, medical anthropology and sociology.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 - The Popularization of Holistic Health and New Age Movements
- 2 - The Semilegitimation of Four Professionalized Heterodox Medical Systems
- 3 - Partially Professionalized Therapeutic Systems The Struggle for Legitimacy
- 4 - The Emergence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Medicine
- 5 - Deconstructing Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra
- 6 - Governmental and Corporate Involvement
- 7 - Creating an Authentic Holistic Health System Impediments and Possibilities
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the Author