Money, commodification and complementary health care: Theorising personalised medicine within depersonalised systems of exchange

Social Theory and Health

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 194-214

  McClean, Stuart ^a   Moore, Ronnie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

commodification; complementary health; folk healing; gift; money; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876144951     PISSN: 14778211     EISSN: 1477822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sth.2012.16     Document Type: Article

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