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Index
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 The Emergence of Alternative Medicine
2 Victims of Medicine
Changing Views of Health and Illness
Crisis and Change in the Health Care System
The Synergy of Complaint: Birth of a Grievance
3 The Core of Alternative Medicine: Age-Old Wisdom Made New
Holism
The Interpenetration of Mind, Body, and Spirit
Health as a Positive State on a Continuum with Illness
Life Suffused by the Flow of Energy
Vitalism
The Healing Process
The Core of Alternative Medicine
4 Medicine and the Spirit
Spirituality in America
Science and Spirit
Conventional Medicine's Response
Turning Religion into Medicine
Turning Medicine into Religion
Spirituality's Impact on the Future of Alternative Medicine
5 Is There Really an Alternative Medicine?
Alternative Medicine as a Professional Entity
Gaining Legal Acceptance
Recognition by Conventional Medicine
The Mass Media and the Public
Alternative Medicine as an Identity
Freedom and Health
6 The Politics of Alternative Medicine: Personal and Practical
Practical Politics
7 Alternative Medicine, Mainstream Markets
Alternative Medicine as Small Business
Alternative Medicine as Big Business
The Convergence into Mainstream Health Care
Alternative Medicine as Corporate Medicine
From Care to Commodity
8 The Future of Alternative Medicine
Assimilation and Cooptation
An Identity Movement
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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