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A Diagnosis for Our Times - Alternative Health, from Lifeworld to Politics

English · Hardback

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Explores Americans' increasing attraction to alternative medicine by looking at two alternative health networks, one "New Age," the other conservative Christian.
Despite having one of the most advanced systems of medicine in the world, American consumers are increasingly turning to alternative medicine. Through a study of two alternative health networks, one "New Age" and the other conservative Christian, A Diagnosis for Our Times examines the health regimes followed by clients of alternative practitioners, the way people find meaning in non-Western and pre-modern health traditions, and the relationship between alternative health and other movements for change. In sharp contrast with other work on this subject, this book characterizes alternative health as a social movement and a "cultural laboratory" where people discover new values and new ways of living that may have larger implications. The authors discover surprising commonalities between the cultural left and the religious right when it comes to healthcare, and they evaluate the potential of alternative health to contribute to a new healthcare paradigm.


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Matthew Schneirov is Associate Professor of Sociology at Duquesne University. He is the author of The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893-1914. Jonathan David Geczik (1942-2001) was Professor of Political Science at the Community College of Allegheny County.


Product details

Authors Jonathan David Geczik, Matthew Schneirov
Publisher State University of New York Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 05.06.2003
 
EAN 9780791457313
ISBN 978-0-7914-5731-3
No. of pages 242
Weight 454 g
Series Suny the Sociology of Culture
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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