1st Edition

Alternative Medicines Popular and Policy Perspectives

Edited By J. Warren Salmon Copyright 1984
324 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1984, and now reissued with a new Preface, this was the first systematic and evaluative investigation of the holistic health movement – 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... Read more

Introduction J. Warren Salmon 1. Scientific Medicine Since Flexner Howard S. Berliner 2. Homeopathy Harris L. Coulter 3. Chiropractic Ronald Lee Caplan 4. Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Holistic System Effie Poy Yew Chow 5. Indigenous Systems of Healing: Questions for Professional, Popular and Folk Care Arthur Kleinman 6. Psychic Healing Daniel J. Benor 7. Alternative Medicine and the Medical Encounter in Britain and the United States Rosemary C. R. Taylor 8. Holistic Health Centers in the United States James S. Gordon 9. Defining Health and Reorganizing Medicine J. Warren Salmon.

Biography

J. Warren Salmon was Professor of Health Policy and Administration, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Hospital Administration and Health Care.