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Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Complementary and Alternative Medicine


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1. Introduction: reconceptualising CAM as knowledge production and social transformation; Caragh Brosnan, Pia Vuolanto and Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell.- Part I: Defining Cam: Boundaries between and within Cam and Biomedicine.- 2. Evidence-based alternative, 'slanted eyes' and electric circuits: doing Chinese Medicine in the post/socialist Czech Republic; Tereza Stöckelová and Jaroslav Klepal.- 3. The incompatibility between social worlds in complementary and alternative medicine: the case of therapeutic touch; Pia Vuolanto.- 4. Qigong in three social worlds: National treasure, social signifier or breathing exercise?; Fabian Winiger.- Part II: Doing CAM in different contexts: Politics, Regulation and Materiality.- 5. Towards the 'glocalisation' of complementary and alternative medicine: homeopathy, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine practice and regulation in Brazil and Portugal; Joana Almeida, Pâmela Siegel and Nelson Filice De Barros.- 6. A 'miracle bed' and a 'second heart': technology and users of complementary and alternative medicine in the context of medical diversity in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan; Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka.- 7. Translation of complementary and alternative medicine in Swedish politics; Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell.- 8. Safety as 'boundary object': the case of acupuncture and Chinese medicine regulation in Ontario, Canada; Nadine Ijaz and Heather Boon.- Part III: Making CAM Knowledge: Evidence and Expertise.- 9. Conversions and erasures: colonial ontologies in Canadian and international traditional, complementary and alternative medicine integration policies; Cathy Fournier and Robin Oakley.- 10. Epistemic hybridity: TCM's knowledge production in Canadian contexts; Ana Ning.- 11. Shaping of 'embodied expertise' in alternative medicine; Inge Kryger Pedersen and Charlotte Baarts.- 12. Institutionalising the medical evaluation of CAM: dietary and herbal supplements as a peculiar example of (differential) legitimisations of CAM in the U.S.; Geoffroy Carpier and Patrice Cohen.
About the Author:

Caragh Brosnan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Pia Vuolanto is a researcher at the Research Centre for Knowledge, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden.



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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783319739380
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2018
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Weight: 625 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3319739387
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 337
  • Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
  • Sub Title: Knowledge Production and Social Transformation
  • Width: 148 mm


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