Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines - Wellbeing, Self, Gender, Class

Informationen zum Autor EEVA SOINTU Assistant Professor of Sociology at Smith College, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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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

Product details

• Authors: E Sointu, E. Sointu, Eeva Sointu, SOINTU EEVA
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9780230309319
• ISBN: 978-0-230-30931-9
• No. of pages: 261
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Holistic medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Nursing, Social Policy, Health psychology, complementary medicine, complementary and alternative medicine, Gender studies, gender groups, Central / national / federal government policies, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social medicine, Medical Sociology, alternative medicine;cognition;gender;health;methods