Toward an Integrative Medicine: Merging Alternative Therapies with Biomedicine

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Baer's exciting new book chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. He describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the increasing interest by the biomedical profession in the possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system. Baer shows ironically, how the holistic movement may ultimately become more limited as it gains acceptance and is integrated into mainstream medicine.

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A comprehensive overview of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the U.S., as well as a sharp analysis of how CAM is changing as it enters the mainstream of biomedicine. -- David J. Hess, author of Evaluating Alternative Cancer Therapies

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Hans A. Baer is professor of anthropology at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.