Negotiating the Holistic Turn

Negotiating the Holistic TurnExamines the growing popularity of alternative medicine as a personal health care option. Alternative medicine, once an anti establishment outsider, has enjoyed such growing popularity in recent years that it has generated a new medical industry, complete with adherents, practitioners, researchers, lobbyists, and regulations. As it has grown, alternative medicine has gradually assumed a different position in the provision of health care. Combining

Programs currently provided by synagogues and churches are detailed

These developments led to a greater degree of intellectual pluralism

quasi-membership or exclusion from the category of human

and Adrienne Rich

Stephanie Li explores literary texts where African American women decide to remain in or enter into conditions of bondage

and William Wordsworth

Explores the state of embodied perfection often called enlightenment

and Bronson’s son John Ingram

while the other three sections bring new attention to understudied Italian American and Italian Canadian writers

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It explores how interpersonal relationships are made

and discovering layers of natural and human history that have become invisible