Toward an integrative medicine : merging alternative therapies with biomedicine

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Toward an integrative medicine : merging alternative therapies with biomedicine

Hans Baer

AltaMira Press, c2004

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-198) and index

Contents of Works

  • The popularization of holistic health and new age movements
  • The semilegitimation of three professionalized heterodox medical systems
  • Partially professionalized therapeutic systems : the struggle for legitimacy
  • The emergence of complementary and alternative medicine and integrative medicine
  • Deconstructing Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra
  • Governmental and corporate involvement
  • Creating an authentic holistic health system : impediments and possibilities

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