Negotiating the holistic turn : the domestication of alternative medicine /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 1423743555 9781423743552 079146315X 9780791463154 9780791483947 0791483940 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Negotiating the Holistic Turn: The Domestication of Alternative Medicine
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Biomedical Culture Revisited
- Outline of the Book
- 1. Conceptualizing NCM
- Approaches in the History of NCM Research
- Domestication: Making Sense of Medicine
- Acculturation and Assimilation
- Domestication and the Flow of Culture
- 2. Setting the Scene: NCM in Israel
- The Legal Status of NCM in Israel
- NCM Institutions in Israel
- Methodological Considerations
- 3. Negotiation: The NCM Clinic
- The Clinic and Its Boundaries
- How the Clinic Worked.
- The Staff
- Case Presentations
- 4. The Patients: Group Profile and Patterns of Use
- Cultural Outlook and the Use of NCM
- Sociodemographic Characteristics and Health Problems
- Patients' Attitudes toward Biomedicine
- Cultural Outlook and Practices
- The Convergence of Statistics and Ethnography
- 5. Dissemination: The Popular Discourse of NCM
- Interprofessional Discourse in the Public Arena
- The Narrative Formula of Dissemination
- Magic Moments
- Deus ex Machina-Biomedicine as the Organizing Principle
- Conventional Medicine Fights Back
- Horror Stories.
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- F
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- H
- I
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- N
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- P
- S
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- W.