Biomedicine and alternative healing systems in america: issues of class, race, ethnicity and gender
Auteur :
University of Wisconsin Press
Éditeur :
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN :
9780299166908
Date de publication :
31 mai 2001
Dimensions :
23,6 x 16,1 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
445 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Examining medical pluralism in the USA over the last 200 years, the author provides a wide-ranging synthesis of the history of alternative medicine from acupuncture to Navajo healing. Its relationship with conventional medicine and the influence of class, race and gender is also assessed.