Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Knowledge Production and Social Transformation

0489145 - SOÚ 2019 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Stöckelová, Tereza - Klepal, Jaroslav
Evidence-Based Alternative, ‘Slanted Eyes’ and Electric Circuits: Doing Chinese Medicine in the Post/Socialist Czech Republic.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Knowledge Production and Social Transformation. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 - (Brosnan, C.; Vuolanto, P.; Brodin Danell, J.), s. 33-58. ISBN 978-3-319-73938-0
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA15-16452S
Institutional support: RVO:68378025
Keywords : Complementary and Alternative Medicine * Chinese Medicine * postsocialism
OECD category: Sociology
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319739380

The chapter analyzes concurrences and conflicts of three partially connected versions of Chinese medicine (CM) as it have been enacted in changing geopolitical, social and economic circumstances in the Czech Republic: 1) „medical acupuncture“ that was institutionalized in the socialist Czechoslovakia as a specialization within state’s biomedical healthcare system, 2) a dissident CM practiced since 1960s by individual doctors who embraced the epistemologically distinctive theory of health and disease of „traditional“ CM and, after 1989, became institutionalized at private schools and clinics while marginalized by the biomedical establishment, 3) a state supported version of CM that has been imported to the country since 2013 as a pillar of the revived economic and political cooperation between the Czech Republic and China as a rising global power.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0283618