University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discourse and Device. The Power Strategies of Hildegard Medicine
Abstract
dc:description"By locating Hildegard Medicine in its historical, cultural and social context among other alternative medicines and biomedicine, I reveal power struggles and discursive strategies that have lead to its contemporary popularity in German culture. Yet while its interest to scholars of German cultural studies is plain, the ultimate significance of my investigation is more than academic. Hildegard Medicine is a lens for viewing broader issues of the discourse of biomedicine and the competing discourses of alternative medicines including such questions as: ""Why do alternative medicines seem to be catching on in Western society?"" and ""What implications might this popular phenomenon have for the scientific biomedicine of the future?"""
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Sanders, Brenda Lynne
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Schoeps, Karl-Heinz
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3086173
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86337