Alternative Medicine as Counter-Conduct: Therapeutic Spaces and Medical Rationality in Contemporary Romania

This study analyses the practice of medical pluralism in contemporary Romania, addressing the phenomenon of alternative medicine through the Foucauldian concept of counter-conduct. Employing in-depth interviews with general and alternative practitioners from two towns in Transylvania, and participan...

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Main Author: Rusu Corina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-12-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2015-0007