Healing Bodies, Feeling Bodies: Embodiment and Alternative and Complementary Health Practices

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 203-220

  Sointu, Eeva ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

alternative and complimentary health practices; embodiment; gender; health; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249155608     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700071     Document Type: Article

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