Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America

Hans A. Baer

University of Wisconsin Press, 2001

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Examining medical pluralism in the USA over the last 200 years, the author provides a wide-ranging synthesis of the history of alternative medicine from acupuncture to Navajo healing. Its relationship with conventional medicine and the influence of class, race and gender is also assessed.

ISBN-13
9780299166946
ISBN-10
0299166945
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Year
2001
Publication date
2001-05-30
Pages
248
Dimensions
226x152x17
Weight
372