Taking stock of integrative medicine: Broadening biomedicine or co-option of complementary and alternative medicine?

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-341

  Baer, Hans ^a   Coulter, Ian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Co option; Complementary and alternative medicine; Integrative medicine; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 71149085417     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.451.17.4.331     Document Type: Article

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