TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saks,Mike
TI  - Orthodox and alternative medicine: politics, professionalization, and health care 
SN  - 9781446265369
AV  - R487 .S354 2003eb
U1  - 362.1/0941 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Alternative medicine
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Médecines parallèles
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Diseases
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Health Care Issues
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Health Care Delivery
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Public Health
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Disease & Health Issues
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-183) and index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Health Care in the Pre-Industrial Era; Chapter 2 -- The Rise of the Medical Profession and Orthodox Biomedicine; Chapter 3 -- The Marginalization of Alternative Medicine; Chapter 4 -- The Development of a Medical Counter-Culture; Chapter 5 -- Health Policy, Professionalization and the State; Conclusion; References; Index
N2  - `There's no book like it. It's Saks' subject and he's good' - Roy Porter This fascinating book explores the changing relationship between orthodox and alternative medicine in Britain and the United States from the sixteenth century to the present day. Mike Saks sees the development of orthodox and alternative medicine as two sides of the same coin and his analysis centers on the role of professionalization in health care. In the sixteenth century, the line between orthodox and alternative medicine was blurred. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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