Toward an Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine

by Hans A. Baer

Book Overview

This book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement over the past three decades, as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. In it, he describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the biomedical profession's increasing interest in the possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system. Baer examines a variety of professionalized and lay heterodox therapeutic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075910302X
• ISBN13: 9780759103023
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"