1st Edition
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Containing and Expanding Therapeutic Possibilities
Chapter 1: Introduction to complemenatary and alternative medicine and therapeutic pluralism
Chapter 2: State medicine, regulating practices and the creation of alternatives
Chapter 3: Disciplining and integrating practices
Chapter 4: Adjusting to statist medicine and the manipulation of chiropractic
Chapter 5: Transformation, continuity and the ebb and flow of Chinese medicine
Chapter 6: Empire, tradition and the many therapeutic faces of India
Chapter 7: The unregulated CAM user and the expansion of therapeutic possibilities
Chapter 8: The fraught use of CAM in cancer care
Chapter 9: Incoherent forces: the disciplining and the unruliness of complementary and alternative therapies
Biography
Kevin Dew is Professor of Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington. He is a founding member of the Applied Research on Communication in Health (ARCH) group. His books include The Cult and Science of Public Health: A Sociological Investigation and Public Health, Personal Health and Pills: Drug Entanglements and Pharmaceuticalised Governance. His current research activities include studies of cancer survivorship and cancer care decision-making in relation to health inequities.
