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Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Challenges for Biomedicine?
A special issue of Health Sociology Review
ISSN 1446-1242 Vol 17(4)
Guest Editors:
Hans A Baer
School of Social and Environmental Enquiry and
Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne and
Ian Coulter
School of Dentistry, University of California at Los Angeles
School of Dentistry, UCLA; RAND; Samueli Institute
ISBN 978-0-921348-01-3 Publishing December 2008
INDEXED IN: Thomson ISI Science Citation Index/Social Sciences
In response to the emergence of the holistic health movement in the early 1970s and the rising popularity of complementary and alternative therapies, a growing number of biomedical physicians and institutions have embraced complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), often under the guise of integrative medicine.
Whereas alternative medicine is often defined as functioning outside biomedicine and complementary medicine beside it, integrative medicine purports to combine the best of both biomedicine and CAM. Some social scientists have argued biomedicine has become more holistic as a result of this development, whereas others suggest it has embarked upon a subtle process of absorbing or co-opting CAM.
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