Kevin Dew

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eBook, ePUB)

Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of CAM in contemporary society, and an exploration of the forces throughout the globe, across different institutions, and within different therapeutic spaces, that constrain or foster alternative medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000376937
• Artikelnr.: 61241087

Autorenporträt

Kevin Dew is Professor of Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a founding member of the Applied Research on Communication in Health (ARCH) group. His books include The Cult and Science of Public Health: A Sociological Investigation and Public Health, Personal Health and Pills: Drug Entanglements and Pharmaceuticalised Governance. His current research activities include studies of cancer survivorship and cancer care decision-making in relation to health inequities.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction to complemenatary and alternative medicine and therapeutic pluralism

Chapter 2: State medicine, regulating practices and the creation of alternatives

Chapter 3: Disciplining and integrating practices

Chapter 4: Adjusting to statist medicine and the manipulation of chiropractic

Chapter 5: Transformation, continuity and the ebb and flow of Chinese medicine

Chapter 6: Empire, tradition and the many therapeutic faces of India

Chapter 7: The unregulated CAM user and the expansion of therapeutic possibilities

Chapter 8: The fraught use of CAM in cancer care

Chapter 9: Incoherent forces: the disciplining and the unruliness of complementary and alternative therapies

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Chapter 1: Introduction to complemenatary and alternative medicine and
therapeutic pluralism
Chapter 2: State medicine, regulating practices and the creation of
alternatives
Chapter 3: Disciplining and integrating practices
Chapter 4: Adjusting to statist medicine and the manipulation of
chiropractic
Chapter 5: Transformation, continuity and the ebb and flow of Chinese
medicine
Chapter 6: Empire, tradition and the many therapeutic faces of India
Chapter 7: The unregulated CAM user and the expansion of therapeutic
possibilities
Chapter 8: The fraught use of CAM in cancer care
Chapter 9: Incoherent forces: the disciplining and the unruliness of
complementary and alternative therapies