Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
Negotiating the Holistic Turn: The Domestication of Alternative Medicine -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Biomedical Culture Revisited -- Outline of the Book -- 1. Conceptualizing NCM -- Approaches in the History of NCM Research -- Domestication: Making Sense of Medicine -- Acculturation and Assimilation -- Domestication and the Flow of Culture -- 2. Setting the Scene: NCM in Israel -- The Legal Status of NCM in Israel -- NCM Institutions in Israel -- Methodological Considerations -- 3. Negotiation: The NCM Clinic -- The Clinic and Its Boundaries -- How the Clinic Worked.
C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- W.
The Staff -- Case Presentations -- 4. The Patients: Group Profile and Patterns of Use -- Cultural Outlook and the Use of NCM -- Sociodemographic Characteristics and Health Problems -- Patients' Attitudes toward Biomedicine -- Cultural Outlook and Practices -- The Convergence of Statistics and Ethnography -- 5. Dissemination: The Popular Discourse of NCM -- Interprofessional Discourse in the Public Arena -- The Narrative Formula of Dissemination -- Magic Moments -- Deus ex Machina-Biomedicine as the Organizing Principle -- Conventional Medicine Fights Back -- Horror Stories.