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The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine.

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The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine.

[Book]

Anamaria Iosif Ross

Oxford

Bloomsbury Publishing

2013

(332 pages)

Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; 1 Alternative Medicine in the Twenty-First Century; Conflicting Interests Pertaining to the Rise of Integrative Medicine; What Distinguishes an Anthropological Approach to Alternative Healing?; Dominant Themes and Organization of the Book; Anthropology and the Human Journey; Healing Power and Agency; What Are Cultural Constructions and Why Does It Matter to Health Care?; A Bird's Eye Overview of Core Concepts in Medical Anthropology; Curing or Healing?; Biomedicine and Traditional Medicine. Plural Healing in the Global Age: Intersections of Meaning and PowerCurrent Practice: Helminths Return as Promising New Drugs; 2 Substance, Energy, and Information Flows; From the Flow of Rumors to Exposing the Global Traffic in Organs and Tissues; Duality of Water: Vitality and Contamination; Current Practice: Homeopathy; Energy, Life-Force, and the Powers of the Sun; Nourishment and Healing; The American Health Foods Movement in the Early Twentieth Century; Rising Trend: Alternative Consumption Movements in the Developed World; Humoral Medical Traditions, Foods, and Herbs. Case Study: ELTA Universitate-Natural Foods, Anesthesia, and Social RenewalOf Information and the Triadic Approach; Energy, Dowsing, and Information; 3 Spirit, Consciousness, and Trance; Altered States, Bodies, and Souls; Shamanic Consciousness and Symbolic Healing; Hypnosis, Spirit(s), and Healing; Current Practice: Rediscovering Hesychasm and the Prayer of the Heart; Rising Trend: Healing Addictions with ASCs and Hallucinogens; Faith Healing and Pilgrimage; Ayurveda and Mental Illness; 4 Body, Movement, and the Senses. The Anthropology of Sensations and the Multidimensionality of Healing WorkSmell and Taste; Tactile Experiences; Rhythm, Movement, and Music as Life; Case Study: Becoming Radiant-Real Reiki in Postsocialist Romania; Ascent into the Future: Aromatherapy, Art, and Science, Ancient and Modern; Current Practice: Medical Aromatherapy; Polythetic Medicine; 5 Conclusion: Looking into the Future of Alternative Medicine; Acknowledgments; References; eCopyright.

Alternative medicine is not a fashionable new trend but an established cultural strategy, as well as a dynamic feature of mainstream contemporary medicine, in which elements of folk traditions are often blended with western scientific approaches. The Anthropology of Alternative Medicine is a concise yet wide-ranging exploration of non-biomedical healing. The book addresses a broad range of practices including: substance, energy and information flows (e.g. helminthic therapy); spirit, consciousness and trance (e.g. shamanism); body, movement and the senses (e.g. reiki and aromatherapy); as well.

Alternative medicine -- Social aspects.

Alternative medicine.

Anthropology, Medical.

Anamaria Iosif Ross

Anamaria Iosif Ross

[Book]

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