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Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America - Rilegato

Ruggie, Mary

 
9780521834292: Marginal to Mainstream: Alternative Medicine in America

Sinossi

This book explains how research is legitimizing CAM in the eyes of physicians.

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Recensione

"[An] extremely comprehensive, detailed, and well-referenced look at the explosion of interest in CAM."
Annals of Internal Medicine

"A superb dissection ... the best sociological interpretation of [the] subject currently available."
American Journal of Sociology

Descrizione del libro

This book explains how research is legitimizing CAM in the eyes of physicians and facilitating its mainstreaming into health care. It explains what CAM is from the standpoint of informal knowledge, based on experience, beliefs and values, and formal knowledge based on science.

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