Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a fascinating and fast-changing area of medicine. This book explores the challenging issues associated with CAM in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people's health. It:

• provides an overview of social change, consumption and debates arising from the increased public interest in CAM, arguing for and against different classifications
• discusses how CAM developed in a political and historical context, critically assessing the importance of ethics and values to CAM practice and how these inform what practitioners do
• analyzes the question of what people want, the changing contested nature of health, and the nature of personal and social factors associated with the use of CAM
• examines the diversity of settings in which CAM takes place
• explores the social, political and economic milieu in which CAM is provided and used.

Paperback - 265 pages

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