Religion, Spirituality, and Public Health : Competing and Complementary Epistemes

Religion, Spirituality, and Public Health focuses on exploring the role of different ‘ways of knowing'or arriving at truth, i.e. epistemes, particularly those found in religious and alternative health milieus. While biomedical solutions offer a dominant narrative, these are articulated differently i...

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Autores principales: Karen O'Brien-Kop, Suzanne Newcombe
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Publicado: The British Academy 2025
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