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Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Knowledge Production and Social Transformation
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SYSNO ASEP 0489145 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Evidence-Based Alternative, ‘Slanted Eyes’ and Electric Circuits: Doing Chinese Medicine in the Post/Socialist Czech Republic Author(s) Stöckelová, Tereza (SOU-Z) RID, ORCID, SAI
Klepal, Jaroslav (SOU-Z) RID, ORCID, SAISource Title Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Knowledge Production and Social Transformation. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 / Brosnan C. ; Vuolanto P. ; Brodin Danell J.A. - ISBN 978-3-319-73938-0 Pages s. 33-58 Number of pages 26 s. Number of pages 337 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country GB - United Kingdom Keywords Complementary and Alternative Medicine ; Chinese Medicine ; postsocialism Subject RIV AO - Sociology, Demography OECD category Sociology R&D Projects GA15-16452S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support SOU-Z - RVO:68378025 Annotation 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. Workplace Institute of Sociology Contact Eva Nechvátalová, eva.nechvatalova@soc.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 220 924 / linka 351 Year of Publishing 2019
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