Overview
- Offers a dynamic and innovative approach to CAM
- Includes chapters on a diversity of CAM topics spanning a broad range of societies, particularly those outside the normal Western focus
- Provides a multi-faceted and nuanced approach to a controversial area of medical study
Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Defining CAM: Boundaries Between and Within CAM and Biomedicine
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Doing CAM in Different Contexts: Politics, Regulation and Materiality
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Making CAM Knowledge: Evidence and Expertise
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Book Subtitle: Knowledge Production and Social Transformation
Editors: Caragh Brosnan, Pia Vuolanto, Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell
Series Title: Health, Technology and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73939-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73938-0Published: 06 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08889-7Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73939-7Published: 26 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3386
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3378
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 337
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Medical Sociology, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Knowledge - Discourse