Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Knowledge Production and Social Transformation
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 reconceptualised as a set of practices and knowledge-making pro…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Brosnan, Caragh (Hrsg.) / Danell, Jenny-Ann Brodin (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-319-73939-7
- EAN: 9783319739397
- Produktnummer: 26918771
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'031 KB
Über den Autor
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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