Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines [electronic resource] : Wellbeing, Self, Gender, Class /
Sointu, E.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Landscapes of complementary and alternative health -- Wellbeing, selfhood, and subjectivity -- Gendering the search for wellbeing -- Prescription : recognition -- Negotiating therapeutic legitimacy -- The holistic body and mind -- The spirit in mind, body, and spirit -- Healing body-subjects.
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.
Health psychology.
Nursing.
Social medicine.
Social policy.
Complementary medicine.
Sociology.
Health Psychology.
Nursing.
Medical Sociology.
Social Policy.
Complementary & Alternative Medicine.
Gender Studies.