‘Gentle caring experience’: Seeking alternative health care in Canada

摘要: Abstract The starting point for this paper is a review of the literature, which seeks to explain use alternative medicines, therapies and practices in developed countries. Using Statistics Canada 1996–97 National Population Health Survey—Health File, we then examine profile service users. Our analysis shows that health care still limited relatively small segment Canadians whose similar those other Women are more likely than men practices, as who have higher incomes better educated. To move what has been an essentially empirical discussion forward, explore critiques conventional medical practice propose be situated within geographies consumption.