The cultural production of Bioterapia: psychic healing and the natural medicine movement in Slovakia.
Social science & medicine (1982) November 1995 D Rubens, D Gyurkovics, K Hornacek
Despite powerful opposition, natural medicine (NM) has achieved a toe-hold in the state-run biomedical system in the Slovak Republic. The physician-leader of the NM movement hopes to leverage his ministerial post as NM 'supreme expert' and his interlocking NM clinical and research facilities to achieve a complex, unified health care system under control of medical doctors. This health care...