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Author / Creator:Ross, Anamaria Iosif.
Imprint:Oxford : Berg, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (x, 185 pages)
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11187861
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ISBN:9780857853189
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:A concise yet wide-ranging exploration of the cultural underpinnings of non-biomedical healing.
Other form:Print version: Ross, Anamaria Iosif. Anthropology of alternative medicine. Oxford : Berg, 2012 9781845208011

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505 0 |a 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 Power -- Current 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 Renewal -- Of 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 Work -- Smell 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. 
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