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McCown, Christine Marie.

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Health care consumption: A comparison of traditional and alternative cancer treatment centers.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Health care consumption: A comparison of traditional and alternative cancer treatment centers./
Author:	McCown, Christine Marie.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	317 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-08A(E).
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10588065
ISBN:	9781369691719

Health care consumption: A comparison of traditional and alternative cancer treatment centers.
McCown, Christine Marie.

Health care consumption: A comparison of traditional and alternative cancer treatment centers. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 317 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Texas A&M University, 2016.

In recent years, there has been a shift toward utilization of alternative medicine in the U.S. In the context of our changing health care system, it is important to understand whether distrust or lack of progress in traditional medicine is pushing people away, or whether rapid progress in alternative medicine is pulling people toward it. This study uses a content analysis of alternative and traditional cancer treatment center websites, along with interviews of alternative and traditional physicians to illuminate the way websites appeal to potential health care consumers. These methods reflect consumer demand as well as the ways that alternative and traditional practitioners see the movement toward alternative medicine.

ISBN: 9781369691719Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

Health care consumption: A comparison of traditional and alternative cancer treatment centers.
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