Table of Contents
Part I. Encountering Cultural Change in the Field
Chapter 1. Questions of Cultural Genocide and the Intellectual Property of Western Herbal Medicine
Tass Holmes
Chapter 2. Outback Healing: Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine across Shifting Socio-Cultural Landscapes
Aqua Y Hastings
Chapter 3. Fear of Witchery and the Mental Illness Scapegoat: A discourse of an Intersection between Mental Health and Spirituality in Ghana
Matthew Gmalifo Mabefam
Chapter 4. A Step Backwards: Unravelling the Exploitation and Commercialisation of Herbal Medicines, Contributing to Endangerment of Species, against Common Herb Usage
Tass Holmes
Part II. Cultural Change in CAM Practice Arenas
Chapter 5. Case Study: An Analysis of the Implementation of a Therapeutic Massage Therapy Program at a Veterans Administration Medical Center Using Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations Theory
Carol E. Fletcher, Allison R. Mitchinson and Daniel B. Hinshaw
Part III. Culture Change and Shifting Theoretical and Political Perspectives in CA
Chapter 6. Constructing a Symmetrical Translating Knowledge Space Between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Scientific Medicine in Australia
Rey Tiquia
Chapter 7. CAM in the Anthropocene: Posthuman Possibilities
Jeff Flatt
Part IV. Changed Approaches to CAM Therapeutic Materials
Chapter 8. Fermented Foods: From Traditional Diets to Clinical Trials
E. Paul Cherniack