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Integrated Medicine - a Challenge to the Health-care System

Royal Danish School of Pharmacy, Copenhagen

In Denmark people react by exit to unsatisfactory aspects of the officially high-praised 'socialized' health-care system More than 20 per cent of the total adult population in Denmark and Sweden use alternative therapists outside the health-care system In recent years centres for integrated medi one have been established on private initiative in Denmark In these centres authorized health personnel and alternative therapists co-operate The demand for alternative ways of understanding and handling disease could be interpreted as a reaction to developmental trends within the conventional health-care system. In this paper, a theoretical perspective on these trends is outlined and the paradigm of conventional medicine is opposed to a paradigm of integrated medicine

Acta Sociologica, Vol. 32, No. 3, 237-251 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/000169938903200303


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