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Healing at the borderland of medicine and religion / Michael H. Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Michael H.
- Series:
- Studies in social medicine.
- Studies in social medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alternative medicine--United States.
- Alternative medicine.
- Integrative medicine--United States.
- Integrative medicine.
- Medicine--Religious aspects.
- Medicine.
- Healing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Discusses the need for establishing rules and standards to facilitate appropriate integration of conventional and complementary and alternative medical therapies. Focusing on the social, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of integrative care, this work provides an examination of the shift to a more fluid, pluralistic health care environment.
- Contents:
- Negotiating the new health care
- Regulating health care rogues
- Regulation, religious experience, and epilepsy
- Healing, environment, and ecology
- Renewing the matrix of health and healing
- Healing at the borderland of medicine and religion
- Epilogue: toward the future.
- Notes:
- Portions of this book were previously published in somewhat different form.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890880253
- 9780807877425
- 0807877425
- OCLC:
- 476236494
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