Energy medicine and hybrid knowledge construction: The formation of new cultural-epistemological rules of discourse

Cultural Sociology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 501-518

  Keshet, Yael ^a  

^a WESTERN GALILEE COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

complementary and alternative medicine; hybrid knowledge; language; Latour; nature culture; sociology of knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054694139     PISSN: 17499755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1749975510390749     Document Type: Article

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