Exploring biomedicalization through complementary and alternative medicine in a postsocialist context

Publikace
Autoři: Klepal, J., T. Stöckelová
Drawing on fieldwork in the postsocialist Czech Republic, we explore the transformative processes of biomedicalization, both within and in relation to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). We argue that it would be simplistic to understand evidence of these processes in C...
Zobrazit obsah

Equality, efficiency and effectiveness: going beyond RCTs in A. L. Cochrane's vision of health care

Publikace
Autoři: Trnka, S., Stöckelová, T.
Zobrazit obsah

Situating biologies of traditional Chinese medicine in Central Europe

Publikace
Autoři: Stöckelová, T., Trnka, S.
Since the concept of ‘local biologies’ was proposed in the 1990s, it has been used to examine biosocial processes that transform human bodies in similar and different ways around the globe. This paper explores understandings of biosocial differentiation and convergence in the cas...
Zobrazit obsah

Devices of difference: On the socio-material forms and effects of technologies in complementary and alternative medicine

Publikace
Autoři: Klepal, J., T. Stöckelová
Zobrazit obsah