Autor según el artículo: Riccò I
Departamento: Antropologia, Filosofia i Treball Social
Autor/es de la URV: Riccò, Isabella
Palabras clave: Reiki New age Hegemony Folk medicine Crisis of presence Cam reiki new age folk medicine crisis of presence cam
Resumen: © 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) and New Age therapies (NAt) are increasingly widespread in the West. Although the variety of therapies they recommend is very extensive, as is the variety of beliefs and practices, there are common ideas shared across both such as the concept of holism and the notion of energy. The case studies examined in this paper, Vittorio and Sol, both suffered from severe personal problems that caused a state of general malaise. They managed to address them through the holistic world. Through their experiences, it is possible to highlight the contradictions of CAM-NAt in the West. While, on one hand, these represent a form of resistance to capitalist culture, on the other there is a risk that CAM-NAt could end up reinforcing capitalistic logic through the establishment of an ‘individualistic holism’. The only solution to this situation seems to be a focus on the exercise of personal critical faculties, and an openness to different ways of conceiving the body, the health and diseases, but without, however, being drawn into the moralistic and individualist view that sometimes accompanies these.
Áreas temáticas: Sociologia i política Social sciences, biomedical Public, environmental & occupational health Public health, environmental and occupational health Medicine (miscellaneous) Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Arts and humanities (miscellaneous) Antropología Anthropology
ISSN: 14692910
Direcció de correo del autor: isabella.ricco@urv.cat isabella.ricco@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-3612-430X 0000-0002-3612-430X
Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-02-19
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Enlace a la fuente original: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13648470.2018.1544605
URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Anthropology & Medicine. 27 (1): 96-109
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Riccò I (2020). Searching for a ‘new magical world’: the contradictions of CAM and new age therapies in the West. Anthropology & Medicine, 27(1), 96-109. DOI: 10.1080/13648470.2018.1544605
DOI del artículo: 10.1080/13648470.2018.1544605
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2020
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
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