Complementary and Alternative Medicine Knowledge Production and Social Transformation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brosnan, Caragh (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vuolanto, Pia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Danell, Jenny-Ann Brodin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Health, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Social medicine.; Complementary medicine.; Medical anthropology.; Sociology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Medical Sociology.; Complementary & Alternative Medicine.; Medical Anthropology.; Knowledge - Discourse.

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 e...