Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- PART I: Introduction -- 1 Alternative Therapies: Why Now? -- 2 The Definitional Dilemma of Alternative Medicine -- PART II: Politics and the Law -- 3 The Federal Approach to Alternative Medicine: Co-opting, Quackbusting, or Complementing? -- 4 The Power of the State -- 5 Paradigms and Politics: Redux of Homeopathy in American Medicine -- PART III: The Changing Medical Marketplace -- 6 Marketing Channels for Alternative Health Care -- 7 The Regional Distribution of Alternative Health Care -- 8 Demand for Alternative Therapies: The Case of Childbirth -- PART IV: The Culture Complex -- 9 Social and Cultural Aspects of Alternative Therapies -- 10 Building Medical Systems at the Household Level -- 11 Redefining the Healing Process: Healer-Client Relationships in Alternative Medicine -- PART V: Toward Complementary Medicine -- 12 Rediscovering Nightingale: Back to the Future -- 13 Biomedical Physicians Practicing Holistic Medicine -- 14 Medical Education: Changes and Responses -- 15 Alternative Therapies: Quo Vadis? -- References -- Glossary of Alternative Practices -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.