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Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: Reconceptualising Complementary and Alternative Medicine as Knowledge Production and Social Transformation -- Introduction -- Current Sociological Understandings of CAM -- Reconceptualising CAM as Knowledge Production and Social Transformation: Engaging with STS -- Boundary Work and Social Worlds Frameworks in the Study of CAM -- CAM and Actor-Network Theory: Exploring Materiality and Relationality -- CAM as Epistemic Object -- Overview of the Volume -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Defining CAM: Boundaries Between and Within CAM and Biomedicine -- 2: Evidence-Based Alternative, 'Slanted Eyes' and Electric Circuits: Doing Chinese Medicine in the Post/Socialist Czech Republic -- Medical Acupuncture: Biomedicalising CM During Socialism -- Traditional CM: Cultivating Autonomy and Care with 'Slanted Eyes' -- TCM: Establishing an 'Evidence-Based' Alternative -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Incompatibility Between Social Worlds in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Case of Therapeutic Touch -- Introduction -- Theoretical and Methodological Issues -- Social Worlds in the Controversy over Therapeutic Touch -- Scepticism -- Medicine -- Nursing Research -- Nursing -- Therapeutic Touch -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Qigong in Three Social Worlds: National Treasure, Social Signifier, or Breathing Exercise? -- Introduction -- Research Material and Methods -- Qigong as National Treasure -- Qigong as Social Signifier -- Qigong as Breathing Exercise -- Discussion -- References -- Part II: Doing CAM in Different Contexts: Politics, Regulation and Materiality.

Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world's leading critic of the concept. Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines and topics that it touches: a McDonaldisation of social theory. The rise and fall of social capital at the World Bank is critically explained as is social capital's growing presence in disciplines, such as management studies, and its relative absence in others, such as social history. Writing with a sharp critical edge, Fine not only deconstructs the roller-coaster presence of social capital across the social sciences but also draws out lessons on how (and how not) to do research.

The Human Aspects of the Operational environment in Afghanistan Handbook was created as part of a broader project, "Human Aspects of the Operational Environment (HAOE)", under the coordination of the Emerging Security Challenges Division / NATO HQ. The project aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the human aspects in any theatre of operations and was conducted as a series of workshops spanning two years. There are many country books, studies and reports, within and outside NATO community, that provide basic/specific information about Afghanistan. This handbook fuses information from the most relevant ones, adding the unique perspective and experience of eight contributors with various Afghanistan backgrounds.

Technologies have altered our lives, opinions and attitudes dramatically. Many of these changes are desirable, but in the past people have also suffered many unexpected, undesirable impacts. This book explores how engineers, policy makers and users can take responsibility for the influence of upcoming technologies on our societies. It does so by exploring how technologies do actually interact with our factual beliefs, options and moral ideas, and it provides some vital concepts and questions that support imagining future technological and social change.

This is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine. Five years in the making, and building on the insights and advice of an international editorial board, the book brings together world-class figures to provide an indispensable, comprehensive resource book on social science, health and medicine. Pinpointing the focal issues of research and debate in one volume, the material is organized into three sections: social and cultural frameworks of analysis; the experience of health and illness; and health care systems and practices. Each section cons

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