Orthodox and alternative medicine : politics, professionalization, and health care / Mike Saks.
`There's no book like it. It's Saks' subject and he's good' - Roy Porter This fascinating book explores the changing relationship between orthodox and alternative medicine in Britain and the United States from the sixteenth century to the present day. Mike Saks sees the deve...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2003.
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| Summary: | `There's no book like it. It's Saks' subject and he's good' - Roy Porter This fascinating book explores the changing relationship between orthodox and alternative medicine in Britain and the United States from the sixteenth century to the present day. Mike Saks sees the development of orthodox and alternative medicine as two sides of the same coin and his analysis centers on the role of professionalization in health care. In the sixteenth century, the line between orthodox and alternative medicine was blurred. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-183) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781446265369 1446265366 9780826458179 0826458173 9780826458186 0826458181 1412901537 9781412901536 |