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Orthodox and alternative medicine : politics, professionalization, and health care / Mike Saks.
LIBRA R487 .S354 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saks, Mike.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Great Britain--History.
- Medicine.
- Alternative medicine.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Alternative medicine--Great Britain--History.
- Physical Description:
- 194 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Health care in the pre-industrial era 8
- Chapter 2 The rise of the medical profession and orthodox biomedicine 36
- Chapter 3 The marginalization of alternative medicine 65
- Chapter 4 The development of a medical counter-culture 94
- Chapter 5 Health policy, professionalization and the state 124.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826458173
- 0826458181
- OCLC:
- 49875222
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