Description: Explores Americans' increasing attraction to alternative medicine by looking at two alternative health networks, one "New Age," the other conservative Christian.
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"Treating alternative health as a new social movement is a very good strategy. The theory employed here is both helpful and innovative, and the ideas of Habermas, Benjamin, and Foucault are all used very effectively to explain what alternative medicine is, how it works, and why it is seen as helpful to so many people." -- Joseph E. Davis, editor of Stories of Change: Narrative and Social Movements