Healing Traditions
Subtitle: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780812213980
Subjects: Medicine: General Issues; Sociology, Social Studies; Medicine; Alternative treatment; Consumer Health; Sociology; Alternative Therapies; Health & Fitness / Alternative Therapies; Medical / Alternative Medicine; Alternative medicine; AIDS (Disease); Hmong Americans; United States
First sentence: Throughout this century and even before, there has been a general assumption-even a conviction-in the health professions and in academia that folk and popular systems of health beliefs and practices would inevitably decline in modern and industrialized societies, falling away before the forces of modernization and progress to be replaced by modern, Western medicine.