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

Sointu, E.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349339228

DOI: 10.1057/9781137003737

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 253