Complementary Medicine and Culture: The Changing Cultural Territory of Local and Global Healing Practices by Tass Holmes, E. Paul Cherniack
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Overview: This book engages topical and problematic issues regarding the impacts of cultural change on traditional healing beliefs and practices in both developing and developed nations. It describes issues ranging from the attrition of cultural heritage knowledge, or traditional knowledge (TK), to the implications of unconventional modern and traditional healing in various guises encountered during projects that entailed research fieldwork in communities of Australia, Africa and within institutions of mainstream healthcare in the United States. Furthermore, it explores philosophical aspects of contemporary complementary medicine practices.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Health, Fitness & Medical
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