Negotiating the holistic turn : the domestication of alternative medicine / Judith Fadlon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fadlon, Judith, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative medicine--Israel.

Alternative medicine.

Holistic medicine--Israel.

Holistic medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alternative medicine, once an anti-establishment outsider, has enjoyed such growing popularity in recent years that it has generated a new medical industry, complete with adherents, practitioners, researchers, lobbyists, and regulations. As it has grown, alternative medicine has gradually assumed a different position in the provision of health care. 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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Conceptualizing NCM

Setting the Scene: NCM in Israel

Negotiation: The NCM Clinic

The Patients: Group Profile and Patterns of Use

Dissemination: The Popular Discourse of NCM

Institutionalization: The NCM College

Conclusion: Familiarizing the Exotic

NCM Modalities Available at the Clinic

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.

ISBN:

9780791483947

0791483940

9781423743552

1423743555

OCLC:

461441783