Derivative benefits: Exploring the body through complementary and alternative medicine

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 719-733

  Baarts, Charlotte ^a   Pedersen, Inge Kryger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agency; CAM; Health practices; Responsibility; Sociology of the body

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68749121146     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2009.01163.x     Document Type: Review

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