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Negotiating the Holistic Turn
Judith Fadlon
其他書名
The Domestication of Alternative Medicine
出版State University of New York Press, 2012-02-01
主題Social Science / Sociology / GeneralMedical / Alternative & Complementary Medicine
ISBN07914839409780791483947
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HhKcJQ7anJ0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Alternative medicine, once an anti-establishment outsider, has enjoyed such growing popularity in recent years that it has generated a new medical industry, complete with adherents, practitioners, researchers, lobbyists, and regulations. As it has grown, alternative medicine has gradually assumed a different position in the provision of health care. 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 medicine has been undergoing domestication, a process by which the foreign is rendered familiar. Although the focus of the study is urban Israel, it is argued that domestication is a major force at work in a number of Western countries.