Books
Frohock, Fred M.

1992 Healing Powers: Alternative Medicine, Spiritual Communities, and the State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Fuller, Robert C.

1989 Alternative Medicine and American Religious Life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gevitz, Norman, Ed.

1988 Other healers : unorthodox medicine in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Grossinger, Richard

1982 Planet Medicine: Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

Micozzi, Marc S.

1996 Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. New York: Churchill Livingstone.

O'Connor, Bonnie Blair

1995 Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Romanucci-Ross, Lola

1977 The Hierarchy of Resort and Curative Practices. In Culture, Disease and Healing: Studies in Anthropology. David Landy, Ed. New York: Macmillan.

Watson, Donald.

1995 A Dictionary of Mind and Body. London: Andre Deutsch.

Weil, Andrew.

1983 Health and Healing : Understanding Conventional and Alternative Medicine. Boston : Houghton Mifflin.

Articles

1999 HMOs and Coverage of Alternative Health. HealthInform 5: 3.

Barnes, Joanna.

1999 Articles on complementary medicine in the mainstream medical literature. Archives of Internal Medicine 159: 1721-1725.

Eisenberg, David M., et al.

1999 Unconventional Medicine in the United States: Prevalence, Costs, and Patterns of Use. The New England Journal of Medicine 328: 246-252.

Vest, Gerald W.

1997 Alternative health practices in ethnically diverse rural areas: a collaborative research project. Health & Social Work 22: 95-100.

I would like to thank my advisor, Howard Sacks, for support throughout the project.

Sincere thanks is also given to Andrew Richmond, Kenyon ‘96 for web design.

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