Epistemological challenges to integrative medicine: An anti-colonial perspective on the combination of complementary/alternative medicine with biomedicine

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-56

  Hollenberg, Daniel ^a   Muzzin, Linda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anti post colonial; Complementary alternative medicine; Epistemological; Integrative healthcare; Sociology of integrative medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049508228     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.2010.19.1.034     Document Type: Article

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