The purpose of this research is to assess the social and health determinants of the use of four separate and distinct categories of complementary and alternative medical therapies: biologically based, mind-body, manipulative, and whole CAM medical systems. The behavioral model of health services use, which holds that health service use is a function of predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics, is used as the theoretical framework for linking specific determinants with the four categories of CAM use. Data are taken from a statewide interview survey of Kansas adults (N = 2,166) conducted in 2001.Results from multivariate analyses demonstrate that there is variation in the determinants of the use of different categories of CAM therapies. Overall, the results indicate that future research on the determinants of CAM must delineate between various CAM therapies to gain an accurate portrayal of the factors contributing to CAM use.

To be named is to be, bestowing individuality and the most cogent dimension of social identity. Anonymity, the absence of a name, nearly defies scholarly consideration because the nameless are rarely located in records and documents. However, cemeteries receive both the named and the unnamed, offering the rare opportunity to examine anonymity. This research examines nameless infant burials for socio-demographic patterns that might explain anonymity. Anonymous cases were selected from a single cemetery of 16,440 interments in Coles County, Illinois. Findings revealed that age was inversely related, significantly, to anonymity, as was decade of death, with anonymity exceeding those named from about 1865 to 1915. Also statistically significant were the relationships between anonymity and a series of familial indicators. Having no significant relationship with anonymity were sex, ethnicity and race.

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