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| Title: | Using Alternative Health Therapies
: A Qualitative Analysis |
| Author: | Jacqueline Low |
| ISBN: | 1551302640 : 9781551302645 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Weight: | .238 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press - May 2004 |
| List Price: | 12.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL STUDIES: COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE |
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. The people she spoke with sought out alternative approaches in order to solve health problems for which they had previously found little or no redress. In using alternative therapies they developed ever-expanding networks of alternative health care, composed of alternative practitioners, health care professionals, and other lay users of alternative therapies. Through participating in alternative approaches, and interacting with others who use them, these informants began to take on alternative ideologies of health and healing. For some, these beliefs became a mechanism through which they transformed their subjective perceptions of health status for the better. Others became so enamoured of alternative approaches to healing that they sought training as practitioners. All of the participants found that they had to manage the socially constructed deviant identities they acquired through their participation in alternative therapies.
Preface; Introduction; The Study; The Structure of the Book; What Are Alternative Therapies and Who Uses Them?; How People Use Alternative Therapies; Why People Turn to Alternative Therapies; An Alternative Model of Healing; An Alternative Model of Health; Alternative Healing and the Self; Using Alternative Therapies: A Deviant Identity.
