Using Alternative Health Therapies
A Qualitative Analysis
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2004
Canadian Scholars (Verlag)
978-1-55130-264-5 (ISBN)
Canadian Scholars (Verlag)
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Provides a sociological inquiry into the perspectives and social issues surrounding the use of alternative therapies. Dr. Low presents the experiences of twenty-one Canadians who use alternative approaches to health care. Her study foregrounds the lay perspective by using a symbolic interactionist approach, which emphasizes individuals' own understanding of reality as a basis for their actions.
This book provides a distinctive sociological inquiry into the perspectives and social issues surrounding the use of alternative therapies. Dr. Low presents the experiences of twenty-one Canadians who use alternative approaches to health care.
Her study foregrounds the lay perspective by using a symbolic interactionist approach, which emphasizes individuals' own understanding of reality as a basis for their actions.
Dr. Low analyses why the participants in the study came to use alternative therapies; the ideologies informing the models of health and healing they espouse; the impact these beliefs have on them, and the implications of their experiences for Canadian health care policy.
This book provides a distinctive sociological inquiry into the perspectives and social issues surrounding the use of alternative therapies. Dr. Low presents the experiences of twenty-one Canadians who use alternative approaches to health care.
Her study foregrounds the lay perspective by using a symbolic interactionist approach, which emphasizes individuals' own understanding of reality as a basis for their actions.
Dr. Low analyses why the participants in the study came to use alternative therapies; the ideologies informing the models of health and healing they espouse; the impact these beliefs have on them, and the implications of their experiences for Canadian health care policy.
Dr. Jacqueline Low is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of New Brunsiwkc. Her areas of research specialization include: lay use of alternative health care, chronic illness and disability, deviant behaviour, and qualitative research methods.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: What Are Alternative Therapies and Who Uses Them?
Chapter Two: How People Use Alternative Therapies
Chapter Three: Why People Turn to Alternative Therapies
Chapter Four: An Alternative Model of Healing
Chapter Five: An Alternative Model of Health
Chapter Six: Alternative Healing and the Self
Chapter Seven: Using Alternative Therapies: A Deviant Identity
Conclusion
Appendix: The Therapies
References
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.6.2004 |
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Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 230 mm |
Gewicht | 240 g |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde |
ISBN-10 | 1-55130-264-0 / 1551302640 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-55130-264-5 / 9781551302645 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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