Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Wellbeing, Self, Gender, Class

• Author(s): E. Sointu,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 253
• ISBN_10: 1137003731
  ISBN_13: 9781137003737
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Psychology / Applied Psychology , Medical / Nursing / General , Social Science / Disease & Health Issues , Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy , Medical / Alternative & Complementary Medicine , Social Science / Gender Studies , Medical / General , Political Science / Public Policy / General ,

Description:... 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.