From body-talk to body-stories: Body work in complementary and alternative medicine

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-251

  Gale, Nicola Kay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cartesian dualism; Complementary and alternative medicine; Embodiment; Ethnography; Narrative

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; SOCIAL WORK; TOUCH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMMUNICATION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HEALTH SERVICES; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; NARRATION; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIAL WORK; TOUCH;

EID: 79551647482     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2010.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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