Description
Alternative Medicines
Popular and Policy Perspectives
Routledge Revivals Series
Coordinator: Salmon J. Warren
Language: EnglishSubjects for Alternative Medicines:
Keywords
complementary medicine; holistic medicine; new approaches to health & healing; folk medicine; conventional medicine; health policy USA; Scientific Medicine; Health Care; Chinese Traditional Medicine; Holistic Health; Tai Chi; Local Health Care System; Holistic Health Movement; Chinese Medicine; Oriental Medicines; West Germany; AHMA; Primary Care Internal Medicine; Indigenous Healing; Chiropractic Profession; Folk Healers; Homoeopathic Physicians; Holistic Approach; Davenport Iowa; Cat Scanner; Alternative Healing Systems; Chiropractic Care; Popular Sector; Popular Health Care; Traditional East Asian Medicine
Publication date: 06-2024
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2022
· 13.8x21.6 cm · Hardback
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Originally published in 1984, and now reissued with a new Preface, this was the first systematic and evaluative investigation of the holistic health movement ? the first to put its contribution and limitations in both historical and current perspectives. The book answers two essential questions: how do alternative medicines challenge the tenets of conventional scientific medicine; and could a synthesis of these alternative medicines and scientific medicine lead to a reformulation of conceptions of healing? A historical survey of medical care up to the use of scientific medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries is followed by chapters on different traditions of alternative medicine: homeopathy, chiropractic, non-medical and spiritual healing, oriental medicine and self-care. Each considers the historical roots and development of the particular alternative medicine; describes its principles and how they relate to mainstream medicine. The concluding chapter considers social policy implications and political issues.
Introduction 1. Scientific Medicine Since Flexner 2. Homeopathy 3. Chiropractic 4. Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Holistic System 5. Indigenous Systems of Healing: Questions for Professional, Popular and Folk Care 6. Psychic Healing 7. Alternative Medicine and the Medical Encounter in Britain and the United States Rosemary 8. Holistic Health Centers in the United States 9. Defining Health and Reorganizing Medicine.
J. Warren Salmon was Professor of Health Policy and Administration, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Hospital Administration and Health Care.