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Anderson, Kevin Taylor.

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Towards the within: Visual culture, performance, and aesthetics of acupuncture.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Towards the within: Visual culture, performance, and aesthetics of acupuncture./
作者:	Anderson, Kevin Taylor.
面頁冊數:	292 p.
附註:	Adviser: Jacqueline Urla.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07A.
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3275819
ISBN:	9780549175797

Towards the within: Visual culture, performance, and aesthetics of acupuncture.
Anderson, Kevin Taylor.

Towards the within: Visual culture, performance, and aesthetics of acupuncture. - 292 p.

Adviser: Jacqueline Urla.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2007.

Key words. Visual and medical anthropology, Ireland, Ethnomethodology, Visual Culture, Phenomenology, acupuncture

ISBN: 9780549175797Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

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520 $a Examination of the patient-practitioner interactions comprises the "performative" aspects of acupuncture and the social reality it creates. The verbal and nonverbal interactions play a significant role in constructing acupuncture as an appealing form of holistic healing, and how patients come to define it as pleasurable, naturalistic, and---curiously enough---as noninvasive. Patient interpretations of the social and bodily aesthetics of treatments contribute to the ways in which patients develop constructs of efficacy. Descriptions of bodily sensations and somatic imagery, use of metaphorical language, and the aftereffects of treatment experienced by patients all influence how patients define acupuncture's efficacy. Research into how acupuncture is successfully constructed as a form of holistic medicine in Ireland suggests that its popularity is in part due to its alternative status, which indicates that the success of holistic healing practices in Ireland stems from the culture's history of concurrently sustaining both biomedical and folk healing practices. We can also regard the popularity and use of acupuncture (as well as other forms of holistic therapies in Galway) as signaling an increase in economic standards of living while also embodying a means for negotiating the social stresses and pressures associated with late-Capitalist modernity.
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