ABSTRACT
The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongside - and sometimes integrates with - conventional medicine, this handbook provides the first major overview of its regulation and professionalization from social science and legal perspectives.
The Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine draws on historical and international comparative research to provide a rigorous and thematic examination of the field. It argues that many popular and policy debates are stuck in a polarized and largely asocial discourse, and that interdisciplinary social science perspectives, theorising diversity in the field, provide a much more robust evidence base for policy and practice in the field. Divided into four sections, the handbook covers:
- analytical frameworks
- power, professions and health spaces
- risk and regulation
- perspectives for the future.
This important volume will interest social science and legal scholars researching complementary and alternative medicine, professional identify and health care regulation, as well as historians and health policymakers and regulators.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
part |50 pages
Disciplinary frameworks, law, sociology and history
chapter |17 pages
Limits and Liberties
chapter |20 pages
Legal Frameworks, Professional Regulation and CAM Practice in England
part |65 pages
Power, professions and health spaces
chapter |13 pages
Practising Ayurveda in the UK
chapter |12 pages
The ‘Knowledgeable Doer'
chapter |16 pages
The Nexus Between the Social and the Medical
part |142 pages
Risk and regulation
chapter |15 pages
The Harm Principle and Liability for CAM Practice
chapter |21 pages
Risk and Regulation
chapter |9 pages
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Practitioners and the Canadian Health Care System
part |113 pages
Critical perspectives on knowledge in CAM