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The rising popularity of unconventional treatment methods in Poland, not accepted by academic medicine, prompted the author to describe and interpret the social causes of this phenomenon and its diverse effects, as well as to forecast the future of such methods. These research results are the outcome of an analysis of more than 3,500 letters sent to the Polish State TV by viewers of a two-year-long series of programs offering unconventional psychotherapy. The analysis of the material enabled sociological reconstruction of everyday lay thinking of illness, health and medicine. The book also examined the relevance of classic socio-medical theories for the study of health behaviors associated with treatments offered by healers.

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Contents: Non-Medical Healing Systems as a Sociological Phenomenon – Polish Folk Medical Systems and Self-Treatment - Continuity and Change – Therapies of Modern Healers - Specificity, Contexts and Interpretations.

Beyond Medicine: Non-Medical Methods of Treatment

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/02/2012
      ISBN13: 9783631621905, 978-3631621905
      ISBN10: 3631621906

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The rising popularity of unconventional treatment methods in Poland, not accepted by academic medicine, prompted the author to describe and interpret the social causes of this phenomenon and its diverse effects, as well as to forecast the future of such methods. These research results are the outcome of an analysis of more than 3,500 letters sent to the Polish State TV by viewers of a two-year-long series of programs offering unconventional psychotherapy. The analysis of the material enabled sociological reconstruction of everyday lay thinking of illness, health and medicine. The book also examined the relevance of classic socio-medical theories for the study of health behaviors associated with treatments offered by healers.

      Table of Contents
      Contents: Non-Medical Healing Systems as a Sociological Phenomenon – Polish Folk Medical Systems and Self-Treatment - Continuity and Change – Therapies of Modern Healers - Specificity, Contexts and Interpretations.

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