Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines - E. Sointu

Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Wellbeing, Self, Gender, Class

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
253 Seiten
2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-30931-9 (ISBN)
106,99 inkl. MwSt
Rather than physiological health only, complementary and alternative medicines aim at the production of wellbeing. This book explores how the increasing proliferation of holistic health methods are intimately connected with changing configurations of selfhood, gender and class.

EEVA SOINTU Assistant Professor of Sociology at Smith College, USA.

Acknowledgements Introduction Landscapes of Complementary and Alternative Health Wellbeing, Selfhood and Subjectivity Gendering the Search for Wellbeing Prescription: Recognition Negotiating Therapeutic Legitimacy The Holistic Body and Mind The Spirit in Mind, Body and Spirit Healing Body-Subjects Conclusions Bibliography Notes

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