Negotiating the holistic turn : the domestication of alternative medicine

Negotiating the holistic turn : the domestication of alternative medicine / Judith Fadlon.

"Combining ethnographic study with quantitative data, Judith Fadlon explains the popularity of alternative medicine, as well as the ease with which individuals now move between conventional and alternative medicine and between different alternative modalities. She concludes that alternative med...

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Main Author: Fadlon, Judith, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Alternative medicine > Israel.
Holistic medicine > Israel.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Alternative Therapies.
MEDICAL > Healing.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healing.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Healing > General.
Alternative medicine
Holistic medicine
Israel
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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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