Using alternative therapies : a qualitative analysis / Jacqueline Low.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Low, Jacqueline, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative medicine--Canada--Case studies.

Alternative medicine.

Canada.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Canadian Scholar's Press, 2004.

Summary:

This book provides a distinctive sociological inquiry into the perspectives and social issues surrounding the use of alternative therapies. Dr. Low presents the experiences of twenty-one Canadians who use alternative approaches to health care. Her study foregrounds the lay perspective by using a symbolic interactionist approach, which emphasises individuals? own understanding of reality as a basis for their actions. Dr. Low analyses how and why the participants in the study came to use alternative therapies; the ideologies informing the models of health and healing they espouse; the impact these beliefs have on them, and the implications of their experiences for Canadian health care policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-151) and index.

ISBN:

1551302640

OCLC:

54065854