{"title":"Política E Gestão Em Saúde","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"healing-traditions","title":"Healing Traditions","description":"\"This fascinating book does much to explain why so many people seek help from alternative therapies like acupuncture or herbalism, traditional Chinese medicine or other non-Western therapies.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"This book presents a very strong argument that medical clinicians must become more aware of their 'medicocentric' bias and learn to accord patients more authority in decisions affecting their treatment.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Medical Association\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"\u003ci\u003eHealing Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e persuasively argues for culture and belief as organizing principles in the choices patients make about whom to see and what to use in seeking relief for suffering…O'Connor offers both a breadth of material and at least the start of an approach worth considering…Healing Traditions has an important message about honoring our patients' worlds.\"--\u003ci\u003eAnnals of Internal Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Well-written, timely, careful. . . . O'Connor's book is excellent reading and provides a thorough discussion of the meaning of the cultural embeddedness of health care beliefs and behaviors using the United States as an exemplar.\"--\u003ci\u003eMedical Anthropology Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"Although O'Connor's approach is that of ethnographer rather than historian, her densely packed and imaginatively written presentation illuminates an important historical motif, the 'colonialism' (p. 178) of scientific medicine.\"--\u003ci\u003eBulletin of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\nThe popularity and practice of alternative medicine continues to expand at astonishing rates. In \u003ci\u003eHealing Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e, Bonnie Blair O'Connor considers the conflicts that arise between the values and assumptions of Western, scientific medicine and those of unconventional health systems. Providing in-depth examples of the importance and benefits of alternative health practices--including the extraordinarily extensive and sophisticated HIV\/AIDS alternative therapies movement--O'Connor identifies ways to integrate alternative strategies with orthodox","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52691513573743,"sku":"9780812213980","price":208.23,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/081221398X.jpg?v=1771540336"}],"url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/collections\/politica-e-gestao-em-saude.oembed","provider":"Loja UmLivro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}