Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Gebundenes Buch

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Knowledge Production and Social Transformation

Herausgegeben: Brosnan, Caragh; Vuolanto, Pia; Danell, Jenny-Ann Brodin
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This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - as knowledge, philosophy and practice - is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social developments. Shifting the sociological focus away from CAM as a stable entity that elicits perceptions and experiences, chapters explore the forms that CAM takes in different settings, how global social transformations elicit varieties of CAM, and how CAM philosophies and practices are co-produced in the context of social change. Through engagement with frameworks from Science and Technology Studies (STS), CAM is reconceptuali...