Editor: Gordon, Rena J.; Editor: Gesler, William M.
Hardback; Book; Illustrations
275 pages
Published: December 1998
Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826111645

Text, written by nonclinicians, providing the cultural, social, demographic and political, economic, and legal implications of alternative therapies. For undergraduates, graduates, and professionals.The contributors are not hard-core advocates of this or that miracle cure, nor are most of them clinicians; indeed most of them come from the social sciences, from where they observer change in the health-care industry. They go beyond the usual descriptions of the history, present status, principles