Why not call modern medicine alternative? / Don G. Bates -- Policy, the public, and priorities in alternative medicine research / Wayne B. Jonas -- Emerging socioeconomic and political support for alternative medicine in the United States / Michael S. Goldstein -- Paying for alternative medicine / Robert Tillman -- Raw and organic / David J. Hess -- Asian medicine in America / Sita Reddy -- Unani Tibb / Helen E. Sheehan and S.J. Hussain -- Remodeling the arsenal of Chinese medicine / Volker Scheid -- Curing and crippling / Julie V. Brown -- Traditional medicine in Africa / Nancy Romero-Daza -- Staying healthy / Michael B. Whiteford -- Native American traditional and alternative medicine / Susan L. Johnston -- Moving lines and variable criteria / Fred M. Frohock.