Complementary and Alternative Medicines

Knowledge in Practice

By: Sarah Cant, Ursula Sharma

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Paperback | 1 January 1996

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Until recently, complementary medical knowledge has generally been treated as 'marginal' or 'heterodox' knowledge. However, the rise of complementary medicine within health-care systems has signalled the end of its marginal status. With this have come concerns about how knowledge is generated within complementary therapies; what kind of authority can be accorded to such knowledge; the nature of research agendas; what ideas and skills are central to training and how they are transmitted. This book examines these concerns in relation to a range of healing practices: acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, reflexology, Chi Kung, herbalism and osteopathy. The contributors to bring sociological, anthropological and practitioner perspectives to the growing debate about the future of complementary medicine.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Complementary Medicine Medicine in General Mind, Body, Spirit Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health Traditional Medicine & Herbal Remedies Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health Psychology

Notes on contributors
Introduction	p. 1
From Quackery to Complementary Medicine: The Shifting Boundaries Between Orthodox and Unorthodox Medical Knowledge	p. 27
From Charismatic Teaching to Professional Training: The Legitimation of Knowledge and the Creation of Trust in Homoeopathy and Chiropractic	p. 44
The Comfrey Controversy	p. 66
Considering Archival Research in One's Own Practice	p. 87
Individual Knowledge: Reflexologists, Biopaths and Kinesiologists in Denmark	p. 116
Alternative Medicines / Alternative Knowledges: Putting Flesh on the Bones Using Traditional Chinese Approaches to Healing	p. 135
Communicating the Individual Body and the Body Politic: The Discourse on Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Alternative Therapies	p. 151
Situating Homoeopathic Knowledge: Legitimation and the Cultural Landscape	p. 165
Final Observations	p. 185
Index	p. 189
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