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Toward an Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine
Author(s): Hans A. Baer (Author)
- Publisher: AltaMira Press
- Publication Date: 1 Dec. 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0759103011
- ISBN-13: 9780759103016
Book Description
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 systems, including chiropractors, naturopaths and acupuncturists, homeopaths, bodyworkers, and lay midwives. He shows, ironically, how the holistic movement may become more limited as it gains acceptance and becomes integrated into mainstream, professional medicine. This book is a valuable resource for instructors, students, professionals and others interested in public health issues, health policy, medical studies, health economics, medical anthropology and sociology.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A comprehensive overview of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the U.S., as well as a sharp analysis of how CAM is changing as it enters the mainstream of biomedicine. — David J. Hess, author of Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies
About the Author
Hans A. Baer is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Hans was a Fulbright Scholar in at Humboldt University in East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic in 1988-1989. He has taught at several US universities, including George Peabody College for Teachers, St. John’s University, the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of California – Berkeley, Arizona State University, and at two Australian universities, namely the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.
