HSC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Magnet Therapy, Osteopathy, Alternative Medicine

• School: Quinnipiac University
• Department: Health Science
• Course: HSC 215
• Professor: Kristen Wolfe

Document Summary

Countercultural healing: a brief history of alternative medicine in america. By: james whorton, m. d: new popularity wave is one of three first in the mid 1800s, the second in the early. It is the physicals role to facilitate and enhance this processes with the aid of natural, nontoxic therapies irregular practitioners have the advantage of cultivating a more intimate relationship with their patients. In the 1940s, doctors were more equipped to deal with medical issues but less equipped to deal with the emotional baggage that came along with it. Many people turned to alternative medicine again to have that personal relationship with their physician: 1990s holistic medicine became basically synonymous with alternative medicine. In 1998 national center for complementary and alternative medicine: many alternative methods could actually serve as complementary methods to standard treatment. Integrating all of the medical systems is the large goal but won"t be easily achieved.