Devices of difference: On the socio-material forms and effects of technologies in complementary and alternative medicine.

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09505431.2019.1572734" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09505431.2019.1572734</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2019.1572734" target="_blank" >10.1080/09505431.2019.1572734</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Devices of difference: On the socio-material forms and effects of technologies in complementary and alternative medicine.

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Despite the widespread view that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a ‘natural’ and low-tech form of healthcare, by contrast with biomedicine, there are numerous devices used in the field of CAM that employ electricity as a diagnostic and therapeutic agent. These devices bring together different types and sources of knowledge, Western and Eastern theories, and expert and lay hands. They foreground complex psychosomatic, social, and environmental relations in which the patient’s body and well-being are constituted. They are used to address biomedicine’s iatrogenic effects and its indifference to specific bodily processes and entities (such as meridians or parasites). In effect they challenge, extend, and reinterpret biomedicine, thereby becoming one of the mediators between it and CAM. Although these devices are sought out by patients and used effectively by CAM practitioners, their ontological choreography and radius can become precarious in a healthcare system dominated by biomedicine. Different CAM devices then deal with the realities of biomedicine in different ways. While some modes of practising CAM devices are inclusive of biomedicine and carefully experiment with the realities it has inscribed in patients’ bodies, others reject biomedicine altogether.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Devices of difference: On the socio-material forms and effects of technologies in complementary and alternative medicine.

Popis výsledku anglicky

Despite the widespread view that complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a ‘natural’ and low-tech form of healthcare, by contrast with biomedicine, there are numerous devices used in the field of CAM that employ electricity as a diagnostic and therapeutic agent. These devices bring together different types and sources of knowledge, Western and Eastern theories, and expert and lay hands. They foreground complex psychosomatic, social, and environmental relations in which the patient’s body and well-being are constituted. They are used to address biomedicine’s iatrogenic effects and its indifference to specific bodily processes and entities (such as meridians or parasites). In effect they challenge, extend, and reinterpret biomedicine, thereby becoming one of the mediators between it and CAM. Although these devices are sought out by patients and used effectively by CAM practitioners, their ontological choreography and radius can become precarious in a healthcare system dominated by biomedicine. Different CAM devices then deal with the realities of biomedicine in different ways. While some modes of practising CAM devices are inclusive of biomedicine and carefully experiment with the realities it has inscribed in patients’ bodies, others reject biomedicine altogether.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA15-16452S" target="_blank" >GA15-16452S: Mnohočetná medicína: Etnografie rozhraní mezi biomedicínskými a alternativními léčebnými praktikami</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Science as Culture

ISSN

0950-5431

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

28

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

24

Strana od-do

513-537

Kód UT WoS článku

000521278200006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85060920985