The anthropology of alternative medicine /
A concise yet wide-ranging exploration of the cultural underpinnings of non-biomedical healing.
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Credo Reference,
2014.
London [England] ; New York [New York] : Berg, [2012] |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 1 Alternative Medicine in the Twenty-First Century -- Conflicting Interests Pertaining to the Rise of Integrative Medicine -- What Distinguishes an Anthropological Approach to Alternative Healing? -- Dominant Themes and Organization of the Book -- Anthropology and the Human Journey -- Healing Power and Agency -- What Are Cultural Constructions and Why Does It Matter to Health Care? -- A Bird's Eye Overview of Core Concepts in Medical Anthropology -- Curing or Healing? -- Biomedicine and Traditional Medicine -- Plural Healing in the Global Age: Intersections of Meaning and Power -- Current Practice: Helminths Return as Promising New Drugs -- 2 Substance, Energy, and Information Flows -- From the Flow of Rumors to Exposing the Global Traffic in Organs and Tissues -- Duality of Water: Vitality and Contamination -- Current Practice: Homeopathy -- Energy, Life-Force, and the Powers of the Sun -- Nourishment and Healing -- The American Health Foods Movement in the Early Twentieth Century -- Rising Trend: Alternative Consumption Movements in the Developed World -- Humoral Medical Traditions, Foods, and Herbs -- Case Study: ELTA Universitate - Natural Foods, Anesthesia, and Social Renewal -- Of Information and the Triadic Approach -- Energy, Dowsing, and Information -- 3 Spirit, Consciousness, and Trance -- Altered States, Bodies, and Souls -- Shamanic Consciousness and Symbolic Healing -- Hypnosis, Spirit(s), and Healing -- Current Practice: Rediscovering Hesychasm and the Prayer of the Heart -- Rising Trend: Healing Addictions with ASCs and Hallucinogens -- Faith Healing and Pilgrimage -- Ayurveda and Mental Illness -- 4 Body, Movement, and the Senses -- The Anthropology of Sensations and the Multidimensionality of Healing Work -- Smell and Taste -- Tactile Experiences -- Rhythm, Movement, and Music as Life -- Case Study: Becoming Radiant - Real Reiki in Postsocialist Romania -- Ascent into the Future: Aromatherapy, Art, and Science, Ancient and Modern -- Current Practice: Medical Aromatherapy -- Polythetic Medicine -- 5 Conclusion: Looking into the Future of Alternative Medicine. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Alternative medicine |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Medical anthropology. | |
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