Alternative Health Care: Medicine, Miracle, or Mirage?

Description

In November of 1998 The Journal of the American Medical Association devoted an entire issue to alternative medicine for the first time in its publishing history. According to survey results reported in the journal, 83 million Americans used some form of alternative medicine to preserve and maintain their health in 1997, a sharp increase from the 61 million who turned to alternative forms of care in 1990.

Michael S. Goldstein’s Alternative Health Care is the first comprehensive account of the growing presence of alternative medicine in American society. Beginning with the basic premises of alternative medicine, Goldstein’s book examines the clinical, economic, and political realities of the broad range of alternative care options and practices in the United States and explains why alternative medicine has become a viable choice for so many people who are ill or who seek to remain healthy.

Bringing history, policy, practice, personal experience, and in-depth sociological analysis together into one comprehensive volume, Goldstein—one of the first recipients of funding from the National Institute of Health for research on alternative medicine—also studies the complexities of the relationship between spirituality and alternative medicine and the changing role of alternative medicine in the larger context of American health care. Probing such issues as the corporatization of medicine, the role of alternative medicine in managed care, and the dynamic relationship between conventional and alternative treatments, Goldstein’s Alternative Health Care is more than the long-awaited introduction to the many forms of alternative medicine. It is also the measure of the implications of such care for practitioners, businesses, policymakers, and patients alike.

Alternative Health Care is the definitive guide for the millions of Americans interested in alternative medicine and treatment, American health care, the sociology of medicine, and American social issues.

From the Publisher
What is alternative medicine? Why is it so popular? What’s its future in American health care?

http://rapidshare.de/files/9303273/AltHealthCare1566396778.rar

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "Alternative Health Care: Medicine, Miracle, or Mirage?" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 398
2. Alternative Health Care: Medicine, Miracle, or Mirage?
3. Alternative Health Care Medicine Miracle rar
4. Alternative Health Care Medicine Miracle
5. Health Publica Icon Health Publications - Alternative Medicine - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography
6. Miracle Cure: How to Solve America's Health-Care Crisis and Why Canada Isn't the Answer
7. Alternative Therapies: Expanding Options in Health Care
8. Complementary And Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care
9. African American Alternative Medicine: Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases
10. Top 100 Health Care Careers: Your Complete Guidebook To Training And Jobs In Allied Health, Nursing, Medicine, And More 2nd Edi
11. Alternative Medicine (Health and Medical Issues Today)
12. Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Policy and Public Health Perspectives
13. Economics, Medicine and Health Care
14. Digital Medicine: Health Care in the Internet Era
15. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach (Complementary & Alternative Medicine) 2nd Edition
16. Herbal Medicine: A Guide for Health Care Profesionals