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...in "alternative" and "complementary" care has grown. That scholarship is deeply divided. Among some historians, medical doctors, and sociologists, osteopathy, homeopathy, naturopathy, and an increasingly wide array of alternative health systems, are precursors to scientifically grounded biomedicine (also known as allopathic medicine). Anthropologists, advocates, and others have attempted to understand why North Americans are dissatisfied with allopathic medicine, and they have promoted the virtues of natural alternatives.

Most of the scholarship is limited in its lack of attention to issues of race, class, ethnicity, and gender among providers and users of the wide range of "alternative" health systems that North Americans have used for many centuries. Written for,...

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