Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Wellbeing, Self, Gender, Class

by E. Sointu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349339228
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

EEVA SOINTU Assistant Professor of Sociology at Smith College, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 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 Conclusions Bibliography Notes