Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a fascinating and
fast-changing area of medicine. This book explores the challenging
issues associated with CAM in the context of the social, political
and cultural influences that shape people's health. It: provides an
overview of social change, consumption and debates arising from the
increased public interest in CAM, arguing for and against different
classifications discusses how CAM developed in a political and
historical context, critically assessing the importance of ethics
and values to CAM practice and how these inform what practitioners
do analyzes the question of what people want, the changing
contested nature of health, and the nature of personal and social
factors associated with the use of CAM examines the diversity of
settings in which CAM takes place explores the social, political
and economic milieu in which CAM is provided and used. The book is
one of three core texts for the forthcoming Open University course
K221 Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (first
presented in February 2005).
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