Complementary medicine in Australia and New Zealand : its popularisation, legitimation and dilemmas
In the late nineteenth century on the eve of the formation of Australia as a nation-state in 1902, the Australian medical system could be best described as a pluralistic one in the sense that while regular medicine constituted the predominant medical system, it was not clearly the dominant one in that regular physicians faced competition from a wide array of alternative practitioners. As regular medicine increasingly assumed the guise of being scientific, it evolved into biomedicine and developed a link with corporate and state interests in the early twentieth century in Australia, as in other
eBook, English, 2016
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, 2016