An ethnography of crystal and spiritual healers in Northern England: marginal medicine and mainstream concerns

McClean, S. (2006) An ethnography of crystal and spiritual healers in Northern England: marginal medicine and mainstream concerns. New York: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 0-7734-5667-8

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Abstract

This book provides an in-depth and ethnographic exploration into the use and practice of crystal and spiritual healing, therapies on the fringe of complementary medicine. Scant attention has been given to exploring more marginal complementary therapies. The ethnographic detail is designed to make an important contribution to the growth of writing on complementary health. This book shows how the study of the marginal gives way to particular insights about the mainstream of health policy. It relates complementary medicine's resurgence to wider debates on modernity and postmodernity, individuation and individuality, the philosophy of the body and lay beliefs.

Item Type:Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:complementary medicine, crystal and spiritual healers
Faculty/Department:Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Department of Health and Applied Social Sciences
~Pre-2012 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Department of Health and Applied Social Sciences
~Pre-2012 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Centre for Clinical and Health Services Research
~Pre-2010 Faculty Structure > Health and Life Sciences > School of Health and Social Care
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Deposited On:21 Jan 2010 13:08
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