Healing Powers: Alternative Medicine, Spiritual Communities, and the State

by Fred M. Frohock and Frohock

Book Overview

The personal testimony of individuals engaged in healing practices and the opposing voices of orthodox and alternative medicines are the center of Healing Powers. Focusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different "belief systems", Fred Frohock clarifies the social and legal dilemmas represented by "scientific medicine" and "alternative care."

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226265854
• ISBN13: 9780226265858
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"