Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Production, Consumption, Research

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 587-603

  Andrews, Gavin J ^a   Adams, Jon ^b   Segrott, Jeremy ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAM and health and health care products, therapies, technologies and practices; CAM users residing in non urban areas than non CAM users; Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) production, consumption, research; Emergence of CAM important trends in health and health care; Geographies of CAM geographers focusing on "traditional medicine"; Gesler's concept of therapeutic landscapes to CAM; Good's research agenda accessibility and utilization of services; Non medically trained CAM therapists providing CAM; Popularity of CAM with health care consumers; Spatial diffusion of places diffusion of CAM into range of new spaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960474568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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