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A Diagnosis for Our Times

Alternative Health, from Lifeworld to Politics

By: Matthew Schneirov,Jonathan David Geczik

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A Diagnosis for Our Times

Alternative Health, from Lifeworld to Politics

By: Matthew Schneirov,Jonathan David Geczik

Despite having one of the most advanced systems of medicine in the world, American consumers are increasingly turning to alternative medicine. Through a study of two alternative health networks, one "New Age" and the other conservative Christian, A Diagnosis for Our Times examines the health regimes followed by clients of alternative practitioners, the way people find meaning in non-Western and pre-modern health traditions, and the relationship between alternative health and other movements for change. In sharp contrast with other work on this subject, this book characterizes alternative health as a social movement and a "cultural laboratory" where people discover new values and new ways of living that may have larger implications. The authors discover surprising commonalities between the cultural left and the religious right when it comes to healthcare, and they evaluate the potential of alternative health to contribute to a new healthcare paradigm.

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State University of New York Press

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0791486818

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9780791486818

A Diagnosis for Our Times

Alternative Health, from Lifeworld to Politics

By: Matthew Schneirov,Jonathan David Geczik

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A Diagnosis for Our Times

Alternative Health, from Lifeworld to Politics

By: Matthew Schneirov,Jonathan David Geczik

Despite having one of the most advanced systems of medicine in the world, American consumers are increasingly turning to alternative medicine. Through a study of two alternative health networks, one "New Age" and the other conservative Christian, A Diagnosis for Our Times examines the health regimes followed by clients of alternative practitioners, the way people find meaning in non-Western and pre-modern health traditions, and the relationship between alternative health and other movements for change. In sharp contrast with other work on this subject, this book characterizes alternative health as a social movement and a "cultural laboratory" where people discover new values and new ways of living that may have larger implications. The authors discover surprising commonalities between the cultural left and the religious right when it comes to healthcare, and they evaluate the potential of alternative health to contribute to a new healthcare paradigm.

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245

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State University of New York Press

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ISBN 10

0791486818

ISBN 13

9780791486818