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This article is a collaboration between an expert practitioner & researcher of Unani Tibb & a social scientist. A hakim (physician), versed in the thinking & language of biomedicine, describes a traditional system of medicine to nonspecialists. Relevant sociological, historical, & organizational aspects of Unani Tibb are presented. Expanding interest in Asian medical systems has made Ional practitioners' leading seminars & writing books on their medical systems for American & European audiences commonplace. This article describes how one South Asian medical system works. There is an emerging phenomenon of traditional medical systems' opening themselves to seekers of alternative health care; in a recent initiative, the government of India (GOI) encouraged medical tourism for Indian systems of medicine. Future research will need to analyze the outcomes of these types of interactions, the most recent for a medical system with a long history of interaction with many medical & social traditions. 37 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]

Discusses issues of CAM and society, including its relationship to biomedicine, in the US and other countries, with examples from India, China, Russia, Africa, Guatemala, and native North America; prospects; 13 articles. Contents: Why not call modern medicine "alternative"? by Don G. Bates; Policy, the public, and priorities in alternative medicine research, by Wayne B. Jonas; The emerging socioeconomic and political support for alternative medicine in the United States, by Michael S. Goldstein; Paying for alternative medicine: the role of health insurers, by Robert Tillman; The raw and the organic: politics of therapeutic cancer diets in the United States, by David J. Hess; Asian medicine in America: the Ayurvedic case, by Sita Reddy; Unani Tibb: history, theory, and contemporary practice in South Asia, by Helen E. Sheehan and S.J. Hussain; Remodeling the arsenal of Chinese medicine: shared pasts, alternative futures, by Volker Scheid; "Curing and crippling": biomedical and alternative healing in post-Soviet Russia, by Julie V. Brown and Nina L. Rusinova; Traditional medicine in Africa, by Nancy Romero-Daza; Staying healthy: evangelism and health perception differences by gender in a Guatemalan marketplace, by Michael B. Whiteford; Native American traditional and alternative medicine, by Susan L. Johnston; Moving lines and variable criteria: differences/connections between allopathic and alternative medicine, by Fred M. Frohock.