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Author: Fred M. Frohock
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0226265854
Category: Medical

Healing Powers: Alternative Medicine, Spiritual Communities, and the State (Morality and Society Series)

The personal testimony of individuals engaged in healing practices and the opposing voices of orthodox and alternative medicines are the center of Healing Powers. Download Healing Powers medical books for free.
/i> Focusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different "belief systems", Fred Frohock clarifies the social and legal dilemmas represented by "scientific medicine" and "alternative care."

"Frohock goes beyond the often irreconcilable differences between scientific biomedicine and alternative care by clarifying the social and legal dilemmas they present. . . . A noteworthy contribution forcing us to rethink what medical care is all about."-Jeffrey Michael Clare, Journal of the Get Healing Powers our bestseller medical books.

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/i> Focusing on medical norms and practices and on competing philosophies of the mind, the body, reality, and rationality across radically different "belief systems", Fred Frohock clarifies the social and legal dilemmas represented by "scientific medicine" and "alternative care."

"Frohock goes beyond the often irreconcilable differences between scientific biomedicine and alternative care by clarifying the social and legal dilemmas they present. . "-Jeffrey Michael Clare, Journal of the

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