- 324 pages
- English
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About This Book
Originally published in 1984, and now reissued with a new Preface, this was the first systematic and evaluative investigation of the holistic health movement â the first to put its contribution and limitations in both historical and current perspectives. The book answers two essential questions: how do alternative medicines challenge the tenets of conventional scientific medicine; and could a synthesis of these alternative medicines and scientific medicine lead to a reformulation of conceptions of healing? A historical survey of medical care up to the use of scientific medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries is followed by chapters on different traditions of alternative medicine: homeopathy, chiropractic, non-medical and spiritual healing, oriental medicine and self-care. Each considers the historical roots and development of the particular alternative medicine; describes its principles and how they relate to mainstream medicine. The concluding chapter considers social policy implications and political issues.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface to the Reissue of 2022
- Introduction
- 1 Scientific medicine since Flexner
- 2 Homoeopathy
- 3 Chiropractic
- 4 Traditional Chinese medicine: a holistic system
- 5 Indigenous systems of healing: questions for professional, popular, and folk care
- 6 Psychic healing
- 7 Alternative medicine and the medical encounter in Britain and the United States
- 8 Holistic health centers in the United States
- 9 Defining health and reorganizing medicine
- Name index
- Subject index