Alternative Health Maintenance and Healing Systems for FamiliesThis important book offers timely discussions of movements in modern medicine that have had great impact upon the family--the hospice movement and the integration of the family into birthing, care of the dying, the chronically ill, and the mentally ill. This book emphasizes that alternative health practices, often viewed as archaic by Western-trained health care personnel, do no have to be in conflict with modern medical practices, but can instead enrich and expand them. The authors discuss fascinating health practices which are changing the course of medicine. |
Contents
Family Health Practices and the Social | 6 |
Methods | 14 |
Lay Midwifery | 23 |
Policy Issues | 33 |
A Life Course Perspective on Hospice and the Family | 39 |
Entry into a Personal and Family Life Stage | 50 |
Unanswered Questions and Policy Issues | 56 |
The Future of Folk Medicine | 71 |
Bonding | 110 |
A Model with Focal Behavioral | 117 |
Placebo Response | 125 |
80 | 130 |
Illness and Suffering | 133 |
2288 | 136 |
An Ancient Model for Health | 139 |
79 | 159 |
Mutual Support Groups for Families of the Mentally | 77 |
Amniocentesis and the Social Construction | 95 |
Single Package | 102 |
Analysis of the Rite of Passage | 160 |
Glossary | 167 |
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism: A Theory of African-American Health Clovis E. Semmes No preview available - 1996 |