Alternative Health Care

By Michael S. Goldstein

Book Overview

In November of 1998 "The Journal of the American Medical Association "devoted an entire issue to alternative medicine for the first time in its publishing history. According to survey results reported... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566396786
• ISBN13: 9781566396783
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A superb book--the definitive study of alternative health.

UCLA's Michael S. Goldstein has written the definitive study of alternative health care. His superb book provides a fascinating description of the therapies now in use, and for that alone his book will reach a broad public. But his task is much more than description, and he offers an impressive analysis of why alternative health care is becoming such a major force in American life. Growing out of well-founded grievances with the dominant biomedical system of care, alternative health care offers 'age-old wisdom made new.' Goldstein has mastered a vast literature to generate a clear picture of the core beliefs and practices of alternative medicine and its relationship to religion, politics and the broader health care system. He concludes with an examination of a future that may include even more growth but also the risk of assimilation into mainstream health care. Anyone concerned about his or her own personal health or about the future of American health care must read this excellent book.George W. Dowdall; Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology; St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia.