Assembling Therapeutics: Cultures, Politics and Materiality (Therapeutic Cultures)

By: Suvi Salmenniemi and Johanna Nurmi and Inna Perheentupa and Harley Bergroth

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Synopsis: This volume examines the ways in which people engage with therapeutic practices, such as life coaching, mindfulness, complementary and alternative medicine, sex and relationship counselling, spiritual healing and self-tracking. It investigates how human and non-human actors, systems of thought and practice are assembled and interwoven in therapeutic engagements, and traces the situated, material and political dimensions of these engagements. By focusing on lived experiences through ethnographically informed case studies, the book elucidates the diverse forms, meanings and embodied effects of therapeutic engagements in different settings, as well as their potential for both oppressive and subversive social change. In this way, Assembling Therapeutics contributes to our understanding of multiple modes of healing, self-knowledge and power in contemporary societies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781351233378
Related ISBNs:: 9781351233392, 9780815377979, 9780815377979
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/30/19
Copyrighted By:: Suvi Salmenniemi, Johanna Nurmi, Inna Perheentupa, Harley Bergroth
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Suvi Salmenniemi
Edited by:: Johanna Nurmi
Edited by:: Inna Perheentupa
Edited by:: Harley Bergroth