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Reconfiguring health knowledges? Contemporary modes of self-care as ‘everyday fringe medicine’ (2020)

Pia Vuolanto (Author)
Harley Bergroth (Author)
Johanna Nurmi (Author)
Suvi Salmenniemi (Author)

Public Understanding of Science
Volume: 29
Issue: 5
Pages: 508-523
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520934752

DOI: 10.1177/0963662520934752

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Quackery Controversies and disputes Public understanding of science Authority of medicine Alternative medicine Well-being Expertise Self-care, Health

The contestation of expertise is perhaps nowhere more pronounced than in the field of health and well-being, on which this article focuses. A multitude of practices and communities that stand in contentious relationships with established forms of medical expertise and promote personalised modes of self-care have proliferated across Euro-American societies. Drawing on multi-sited ethnography in three domains – body–mind–spirit therapies, vaccine hesitancy and consumer-grade digital self-tracking – we map such practices through the concept of ‘everyday fringe medicine’. The concept of everyday fringe medicine enables us to bring together various critical health and well-being practices and to unravel the complex modes of contestation and appreciation of the medical establishment that are articulated within them. We find three critiques of the medical establishment – critiques of medical knowledge production, professional practices and the knowledge base – which make visible the complexities related to public understandings of science within everyday fringe medicine.

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