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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: reconceptualising CAM as knowledge production and social transformation; Caragh Brosnan, Pia Vuolanto and Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell
• Part I: Defining Cam: Boundaries between and within Cam and Biomedicine
• 2. Evidence-based alternative, 'slanted eyes' and electric circuits: doing Chinese Medicine in the post/socialist Czech Republic; Tereza Stöckelová and Jaroslav Klepal
• 3. The incompatibility between social worlds in complementary and alternative medicine: the case of therapeutic touch; Pia Vuolanto
• 4. Qigong in three social worlds: National treasure, social signifier or breathing exercise?; Fabian Winiger
• Part II: Doing CAM in different contexts: Politics, Regulation and Materiality
• 5. Towards the 'glocalisation' of complementary and alternative medicine: homeopathy, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine practice and regulation in Brazil and Portugal; Joana Almeida, Pâmela Siegel and Nelson Filice De Barros
• 6. A 'miracle bed' and a 'second heart': technology and users of complementary and alternative medicine in the context of medical diversity in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan; Danuta Penkala-Gawęcka
• 7. Translation of complementary and alternative medicine in Swedish politics; Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell
• 8. Safety as 'boundary object': the case of acupuncture and Chinese medicine regulation in Ontario, Canada; Nadine Ijaz and Heather Boon
• Part III: Making CAM Knowledge: Evidence and Expertise
• 9. Conversions and erasures: colonial ontologies in Canadian and international traditional, complementary and alternative medicine integration policies; Cathy Fournier and Robin Oakley
• 10. Epistemic hybridity: TCM's knowledge production in Canadian contexts; Ana Ning
• 11. Shaping of 'embodied expertise' in alternative medicine; Inge Kryger Pedersen and Charlotte Baarts
• 12. Institutionalising the medical evaluation of CAM: dietary and herbal supplements as a peculiar example of (differential) legitimisations of CAM in the U.S.; Geoffroy Carpier and Patrice Cohen.