1st Edition
by Nicola K. Gale (Editor), Jean V. McHale (Editor)
The provision and use of
traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been
growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongside - and
sometimes integrates with - conventional medicine, this handbook
provides the first major overview of its regulation and
professionalization from social science and legal perspectives.
The Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine draws
on historical and international comparative research to provide a
rigorous and thematic examination of the field. It argues that many
popular and policy debates are stuck in a polarized and largely asocial
discourse, and that interdisciplinary social science perspectives,
theorising diversity in the field, provide a much more robust evidence
base for policy and practice in the field. Divided into four sections,
the handbook covers:
- analytical frameworks
- power, professions and health spaces
- risk and regulation
- perspectives for the future.
This
important volume will interest social science and legal scholars
researching complementary and alternative medicine, professional
identify and health care regulation, as well as historians and health
policymakers and regulators.
