title: Social validation: an historian's look at complementary/alternative medicine.
authors.affiliation: History of Medicine, Health Sciences Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada. jcrellin@mun.ca
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Crellin
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000266:history*; D006663:Historiography; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D012938:Social Perception