Governing the health of the hybrid self: Integrative medicine, neoliberalism, and the shifting biopolitics of subjectivity

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 353-367

  Fries, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biopower; Complementary alternative medicine; Health sociology; Integrative medicine; Neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949348919     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.451.17.4.353     Document Type: Article

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