Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Wellbeing, Self, Gender, Class
β Scribed by Eeva Sointu (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 262
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Landscapes of Complementary and Alternative Health....Pages 21-42
Wellbeing, Selfhood and Subjectivity....Pages 43-70
Gendering the Search for Wellbeing....Pages 71-99
Prescription: Recognition....Pages 100-123
Negotiating Therapeutic Legitimacy....Pages 124-148
The Holistic Body and Mind....Pages 149-165
The Spirit in Mind, Body and Spirit....Pages 166-183
Healing Body-Subjects....Pages 184-207
Conclusions....Pages 208-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-253
β¦ Subjects
Health Psychology; Nursing; Medical Sociology; Social Policy; Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Gender Studies
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