116: History is Not a Placebo: Chinese Medicine in America (w/Tamara Venit-Shelton)
Conspirituality
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Holistic Medicine
There's a rich feminist velance on the term holism that's powerful and makes a lot of sense. It emerges through things like midwifery culture, in which communal teams of women attended birth and its medical, domestic, social and psychological needs. In contemporary wellness discourse, these feminist undertones of holism show up in opposition to what is described as the compartmentalized, rules based, expert driven, top down edicts of bio medicine. Holism offers itself as a rejection of patriarchy and authoritarianism as enacted by the top down organization of the hospital in clinic. But because the holistic practitioner is burdened with an absence of boundaries and guard rails, they are too often,
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