Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Mirroring the rapid emergence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) during the last 30 years, over the same time frame, social scientific research has begun to study many of its features. Since the early 1990s, geographers have played a modest role in some basic and initial fact finding, focusing on displaying distributional trends in CAM provision and use. Since 2000, however, a greater volume of research has emerged, studies …