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Bounding biomedicine : evidence and rhetoric in the new science of alternative medicine / Colleen Derkatch.
LIBRA R733 .D4393 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Derkatch, Colleen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alternative medicine--United States--History--20th century.
- Alternative medicine.
- Alternative medicine--Research--United States--History--20th century.
- Medicine--United States--History--20th century.
- Medicine.
- Alternative medicine--Research.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Evidence, rhetoric, and disciplinary boundaries
- 2. Patrolling professional borders
- 3. Scientific methods at the edge of biomedicine
- 4. Precincts of care in CAM research
- 5. Professional borders in popular media
- Conclusion: boundaries as entry points.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226345840
- 022634584X
- OCLC:
- 915323965
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