Complementary and Alternative Medicine

✍ Scribed by Caragh Brosnan, Pia Vuolanto, Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 343
• Series: Health, Technology and Society
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) – as knowledge, philosophy and practice – is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social developments. Shifting the sociological focus away from CAM as a stable entity that elicits perceptions and experiences, chapters explore the forms that CAM takes in different settings, how global social transformations elicit varieties of CAM, and how CAM philosophies and practices are co-produced in the context of social change. Through engagement with frameworks from Science and Technology Studies (STS), CAM is reconceptualised as a set of practices and knowledge-making processes, and opened up to new forms of analysis. Part 1 of the book explores how and why boundaries within CAM and between CAM and other health practices, are being constructed, challenged and changed. Part 2 asks how CAM as material practice is shaped by politics and regulation in a range of national settings. Part 3 examines how evidence is being produced and used in CAM research and practice. Including studies of CAM in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, and North and South America, the volume will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and health practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Reconceptualising Complementary and Alternative Medicine as Knowledge Production and Social Transformation (Caragh Brosnan, Pia Vuolanto, Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell)....Pages 1-29
Front Matter ....Pages 31-31
Evidence-Based Alternative, ‘Slanted Eyes’ and Electric Circuits: Doing Chinese Medicine in the Post/Socialist Czech Republic (Tereza Stöckelová, Jaroslav Klepal)....Pages 33-58
The Incompatibility Between Social Worlds in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Case of Therapeutic Touch (Pia Vuolanto)....Pages 59-84
Qigong in Three Social Worlds: National Treasure, Social Signifier, or Breathing Exercise? (Fabian Winiger)....Pages 85-110
Front Matter ....Pages 111-111
Towards the Glocalisation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Homeopathy, Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practice and Regulation in Brazil and Portugal (Joana Almeida, Pâmela Siegel, Nelson Filice De Barros)....Pages 113-137
A ‘Miracle Bed’ and a ‘Second Heart’: Technology and Users of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Context of Medical Diversity in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan (Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka)....Pages 139-163
Translation of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Swedish Politics (Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell)....Pages 165-191
Safety as ‘Boundary Object’: The Case of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Regulation in Ontario, Canada (Nadine Ijaz, Heather Boon)....Pages 193-213
Front Matter ....Pages 215-215
Conversions and Erasures: Colonial Ontologies in Canadian and International Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine Integration Policies (Cathy Fournier, Robin Oakley)....Pages 217-245
Epistemic Hybridity: TCM’s Knowledge Production in Canadian Contexts (Ana Ning)....Pages 247-272
Shaping of ‘Embodied Expertise’ in Alternative Medicine (Inge Kryger Pedersen, Charlotte Andreas Baarts)....Pages 273-294
Institutionalising the Medical Evaluation of CAM: Dietary and Herbal Supplements as a Peculiar Example of (Differential) Legitimisations of CAM in the USA (Geoffroy Carpier, Patrice Cohen)....Pages 295-325
Back Matter ....Pages 327-337

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Science and Technology Studies; Medical Sociology; Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Medical Anthropology; Knowledge - Discourse