Global perspectives on complementary and alternative medicine
Title:
Global perspectives on complementary and alternative medicine
Author:
Sheehan, Helen E., 1944-
ISBN:
9780761927761
9780761927754
Publication Information:
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2002.
Physical Description:
232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 583.
Series Title:
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 583.
General Note:
"September 2002."
Contents:
Why not call modern medicine alternative? / Policy, the public, and priorities in alternative medicine research / Emerging socioeconomic and political support for alternative medicine in the United States / Paying for alternative medicine / Raw and organic / Asian medicine in America / Unani Tibb / Remodeling the arsenal of Chinese medicine / Curing and crippling / Traditional medicine in Africa / Staying healthy / Native American traditional and alternative medicine / Moving lines and variable criteria