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• Title:Using alternative therapies : a qualitative analysis / Jacqueline Low.
  
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• Author/Creator:Low, Jacqueline, 1964-
  
• Published/Created:Toronto, Ont. : Canadian Scholar's Press, 2004.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB890 .L953 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Alternative medicine--Canada--Case studies.
  
• Medical Subjects:Complementary Therapies--utilization--Canada.
  Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice--Canada.
  Sociology, Medical--Canada.
  
• Description:xi, 160 pages : illustrations.
  
• Summary:"This book provides a distinctive sociological inquiry into the perspectives and social issues surrounding the use of alternative therapies. Dr. Low presents the experiences of twenty-one Canadians who use alternative approaches to health care. Her study foregrounds the lay perspective by using a symbolic interactionist approach, emphasizing individuals' own understanding of reality as a basis for their actions." "Dr. Low analyses how and why the participants in the study came to use alternative therapies, and the ideologies informing the models of health and healing they espouse. She also discusses the impact these beliefs have on the participants, and the implications of their experiences for Canadian health care policy."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-151) and index.
  
• ISBN:1551302640
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. What are alternative therapies and who uses them?
  Ch. 2. How people use alternative therapies
  Ch. 3. Why people turn to alternative therapies
  Ch. 4. alternative model of healing
  Ch. 5. alternative model of health
  Ch. 6. Alternative healing and the self
  Ch. 7. Using alternative therapies : a deviant identity
  App. therapies.