Non-Medical Healing Arts

Catalog description

This course examines the role of Osteopathy, Acupuncture, Faith Healing, and other health services which deviate from or compete with "Medicine" in relation to health education. The social and legal issues concerning these services, reliability of sources of information about the services, and the role of the health education in utilization of these services are studied. Focus of the course will be on the development of guidelines for utilization of these services.