Alternative Therapies: Expanding Options in Health Care

by Gordon, Rena, J.

• ISBN13: 9780826111647
• ISBN10: 0826111645
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

In this volume, an interdisciplinary team of scholars and social scientists address the reasons and ramifications of the increasing utilization of alternative and complementary medicine. The book provides a scholarly and theoretical discussion of salient issues within this new field. Topics discussed include: the changing medical market place political and legal aspects of practice influential cultural factors clinical and educational issues and much more The many case examples and vignettes that appear throughout the text illustrate how alternative health care relates to everyday life. The book serves as a primer for an array of health professionals and students as well as provides new insights to those familiar with alternative health practices.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii	(4)
Foreword	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
List of Tables	xv	(2)
List of Figures	xvii
PART I Introduction	3	(24)
1 Alternative Therapies: Why Now?	3	(10)
Wilbert M. Gesler
Rena J. Gordon
2 The Definitional Dilemma of Alternative Medicine	13	(14)
Barbara Cable Nienstedt
PART II Politics and the Law	27	(60)
3 The Federal Approach to Alternative Medicine: Co-opting, Quackbusting, or Complementing?	27	(18)
Barabara Cable Nienstedt
4 The Power of the State	45	(22)
Leonard D. Baer
Charles M. Good, Jr.
5 Paradigms and Politics: Redux of Homeopathy in American Medicine	67	(20)
Kristen S. Borre
James L. Wilson
PART III The Changing Medical Marketplace	87	(44)
6 Marketing Channels for Alternative Health Care	87	(18)
Rena J. Gordon
Gail Silverstein
7 The Regional Distribution of Alternative Health Care	105	(12)
Alan Rice Osborn
8 Demand for Alternative Therapies: The Case of Childbirth	117	(14)
Dona Schneider
PART IV The Culture Complex	131	(46)
9 Social and Cultural Aspects of Alternative Therapies	131	(18)
Jill M. Hyatt
Mary M. Hale
10 Building Medical Systems at the Household Level	149	(14)
Clarissa T. Kimber
11 Redefining the Healing Process: Healer-Client Relationships in Alternative Medicine	163	(14)
Joan D. Koss-Chioino
PART V Toward Complementary Medicine	177	(58)
12 Rediscovering Nightingale: Back to the Future	177	(12)
Barbara Stevens Barnum
13 Biomedical Physicians Practicing Holistic Medicine	189	(10)
Ronald L. Caplan
Wilbert M. Gesler
14 Medical Education: Changes and Responses	199	(20)
Evan W. Kligman
Case Study
Jerry M. Calkins
15 Alternative Therapies: Quo Vadis?	219	(16)
Rena J. Gordon
References	235	(20)
Glossary of Alternative Practices	255	(10)
Barbara Cable Nienstedt
Index	265