Title Biomedicine and alternative healing systems in America : issues of class, race, ethnicity, and gender / Hans A. Baer.

Publication Info.	Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2001]
	©2001

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Description	xii, 222 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-215) and index.
Contents	Nineteenth-century American medicine as a pluralistic system -- The rise of the American dominative medical system under corporate capitalism -- Osteopathic medicine as a parallel medical system -- Chiropractic as the foremost professionalized heterodox medical system -- Naturopathy and acupuncture as secondary professionalized heterdox medical systems -- Partially professionalized and lay heterodox medical systems within the context of the holistic health movement -- Anglo-American religious and metaphysical healing systems -- Folk medical systems in a culturally diverse society -- Conclusion.
Subject	Social medicine -- United States.
	Medical anthropology -- United States.
	Alternative medicine -- United States.
	Medical care.
	Social medicine.
	Cross-cultural studies.
	Anthropology.
	Complementary Therapies. (DNLM)D000529
	Medicine, Traditional. (DNLM)D008519
	Delivery of Health Care. (DNLM)D003695
	Social Medicine. (DNLM)D012936
	Cross-Cultural Comparison. (DNLM)D003431
	Anthropology. (DNLM)D000883
	United States. (DNLM)D014481
	anthropology. (CStmoGRI)aat300054315
	Medical care. (OCoLC)fst01013753
	Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst00884159
	Anthropology. (OCoLC)fst00810196
	Alternative medicine. (OCoLC)fst00806153
	Medical anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01013693
	Social medicine. (OCoLC)fst01122637
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Alternative Medizin. (DE-588)4112639-7
	Biomedizin. (DE-588)4647152-2
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
	Alternatieve geneeskunde.
	Gezondheidszorg.
	Sociale aspecten.
	Culturele aspecten.
	Alternative Medizin.
	Biomedizin.
	USA.
ISBN	0299166902 (cloth)
	9780299166908 (cloth)
	0299166945 (paperback)
	9780299166946 (paperback)

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