Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bodies, Therapies, Senses

by Ruth Barcan

Alternative therapies, once the province of the hippie counterculture, are now a mainstream phenomenon. But they are more than a medical and economic sensation. At once spiritual and bodily, medical and recreational, they are an enormously popular cultural practice bound up with the pleasure-seeking drive of consumer culture as well as with spiritual and neo-liberal values.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine critically examines this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845207424
• ISBN13: 9781845207427
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"