1st Edition
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Challenge and Change
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
279 Pages
by
Routledge
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The rapid growth of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) demands that the public, the medical world, social scientists, the media, and governments pay attention. People are questioning the limits of what modern medicine can accomplish and seeking additional ways to manage their health. While many are enthusiastically adopting complementary and alternative forms of medicine, others are more... Read more
Preface: The Challenge of CAM; Introduction; Conceptions of the Body and CAM; The Fitness Movement and the Use of CAM; The Psychology of the Use of CAM; The Therapeutic Relationship and the Use of CAM; Psychosocial Determinants of CAM Utilisation; Changes in Characteristics of CAM Users Over Time; The Diffusion of CAM; Partners in Illness: Who helps You When You are Sick?; Investigating Symbolic, Experimental and Social Realities; Assessing the Evidence Base for CAM; Rethinking Models of Illness Behaviour; Medical Pluralism and the Re-emergence of CAM; Professionalisation, Politics and CAM; Strategies for Future Research
Biography
Merrijoy Kelner, Beverly Wellman
