Alternative Medicine?
Subtitle: A History
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: January 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780199218875
Subjects: Complementary Medicine; History of medicine; Health & Fitness; Consumer Health; Health/Fitness; Healing; Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies; Alternative Therapies; History; Alternative medicine
Description: Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), this title maps the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and lays bare the roots of today's distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine.