Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

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