Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions

by Bonnie Blair O'Connor

Book Overview

"This fascinating book does much to explain why so many people seek help from alternative therapies like acupuncture or herbalism, traditional Chinese medicine or other non-Western therapies."--Boston Globe "This book presents a very strong argument that medical clinicians must become more aware of their 'medicocentric' bias and learn to accord patients more authority in decisions affecting their treatment."--Journal of the American Medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081221398X
• ISBN13: 9780812213980
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"