Biomedicine and alternative healing systems in america: issues of class, race, ethnicity and gender
Auteur :
Baer, Hans A.
Éditeur :
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN :
9780299166946
Date de publication :
30 mai 2001
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,3 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
330 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.