From doctor to healer
Subtitle: the transformative journey
By: Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John.
Contributors: St. John, Gloria, 1944-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Holistic medicine -- Social aspects.; Medicine -- Philosophy.
Description: Why would a successful physician who has undergone seven years of rigorous Western medical training learn to practice homeopathy or Chinese medicine? From Doctor to Healer answers this question as it traces the transformational journeys of physicians who move across the philosophical spectrum of American medicine from doctor to healer. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Gloria St. John conducted extensive interviews to discover how and why physicians make the move to alternative medicine, what sparks this shift, and what beliefs they abandon or embrace in the process.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.