Professor Jean McHale, Director of the Centre for Health Law Science and Policy, has co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Perspectives from Social Sciences and Law.
Published by Routledge, the volume is co-edited by Dr Nicola Gale from the Health Services Management Centre at Birmingham.
The provision and use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been growing globally over the last 40 years. As CAM develops alongside- and sometimes integrates- with conventional medicine, this book provides the first major overview of its regulation and professionalization from social science and legal perspectives drawing upon contributors from law, history, sociology, anthropology and CAM practice across a range of jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Kenya, Switzerland and the UK.