Some of the examples of social processes and factors that transform and challenge the cultural authority of medicine are 1) emergence of complementary-alternative medicines, such as healing modalities based on herbal supplements or mind-body connection paradigms; 2) emergence of health-related social movements, such as disease-specific advocacy groups; and 3) development of self-monitoring technologies, or “quantified self” (p.246).
Production of historical narrative, invisibility as an ultimate mark of power, historical actors and narrators, process and narrative.