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Negotiating the holistic turn : the domestication of alternative medicine /
"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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 157 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423743555 9781423743552 079146315X 9780791463154 9780791483947 0791483940 |