Robbie Davis-Floyd, Gloria St John

Broschiertes Buch

From Doctor to Healer

The Transformative Journey

Beschreibung

Why train for seven years in Western ways and then move to homoeopathy and Chinese medicine? This book traces the transformational journeys of 40 American physicians who have made this move, outlining the basic models of American health care - technocratic, humanistic and holistic - on the way.

Autor

ROBBIE DAVIS-FLOYD is a research fellow at the University of Texas, Austin, and a medical anthropologist. She is the author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage and co-editor of Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. GLORIA ST. JOHN has been involved in the business end of health care for 25 years and has served as executive director of the MetaPhysicians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 148mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9780813525204
• ISBN-10: 0813525209
• Artikelnr.: 21526291