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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      02 February 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511810619
      9780521834292
      9780521542227
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511810619
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.478kg, 248 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.346kg, 250 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Medicine: General Interest, Medicine, Sociology of Science and Medicine, Sociology
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    Medicine: General Interest, Medicine, Sociology of Science and Medicine, Sociology
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    Millions of Americans are using complementary and alternative medicine and spending billions of dollars, out-of-pocket, for it. Why? Do the therapies work? Are they safe? Are any covered by insurance? How is the medical profession responding to the growing use of therapies that were only recently thought of as quackery? These are some of the many questions asked and answered in this book. It describes a transformation in the status of alternative medicine within health care. Paving the way toward legitimacy is research currently underway and funded by the National Institutes of Health. This research is proving the safety and efficacy of certain therapies and the harm or inefficacy of others. While some therapies will remain alternative to conventional medicine, others are becoming complementary, and still others are busting the boundaries and contributing to a new approach to health and healing called integrative medicine.

    Reviews

    "[An] extremely comprehensive, detailed, and well-referenced look at the explosion of interest in CAM."
    Annals of Internal Medicine

    "A superb dissection ... the best sociological interpretation of [the] subject currently available."
    American Journal of Sociology

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