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Epilogue: Towards authentic medicine: Bodies and boundaries (2010)
Book Chapter
McClean, S., & Moore, R. (2010). Epilogue: Towards authentic medicine: Bodies and boundaries. In R. Moore, & S. McClean (Eds.), Folk healing and health care practices in Britain and Ireland: stethoscopes, wands or crystals. Berghahn Books

Evaluation of ArtLift: A partnership arts in health project (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Daykin, N., McClean, S., Pilkington, P., Owen, H., Opher, S., & Haldar, T. (2008, April). Evaluation of ArtLift: A partnership arts in health project. Poster presented at UKPHA Conference, Liverpool, UK

Creativity, identity and healing: Participants' accounts of music therapy in cancer care (2007)
Journal Article
Daykin, N., McClean, S., & Bunt, L. (2007). Creativity, identity and healing: Participants' accounts of music therapy in cancer care. Health, 11(3), 349-370. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459307077548

This article reports on findings from a study of the accounts of people participating in music therapy as part of a programme of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in supportive cancer care. The article outlines the perceived effects of mus... Read More about Creativity, identity and healing: Participants' accounts of music therapy in cancer care.

Globalization and health (2007)
Book Chapter
McClean, S. (2007). Globalization and health. In J. Orme, J. Powell, P. Taylor, & M. Grey (Eds.), Public Health for the 21st Century: New Perspectives on Policy, Participation and Practice (204-222). Open University Press

Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers (2006)
Journal Article
Daykin, N., Bunt, L., & McClean, S. (2006). Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers. Arts in Psychotherapy, 33(5), 402-413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2006.07.001

This paper explores the role of music activity and music therapy in health care drawing on a survey of UK cancer care providers offering music interventions and music therapy. The survey examined the extent and type of music provision and explored pr... Read More about Music and healing in cancer care: A survey of supportive care providers.

An ethnography of crystal and spiritual healers in Northern England: Marginal medicine and mainstream concerns (2006)
Book
McClean, S. (2006). An ethnography of crystal and spiritual healers in Northern England: Marginal medicine and mainstream concerns. New York: Edwin Mellen Press

This book provides an in-depth and ethnographic exploration into the use and practice of crystal and spiritual healing, therapies on the fringe of complementary medicine. Scant attention has been given to exploring more marginal complementary therapi... Read More about An ethnography of crystal and spiritual healers in Northern England: Marginal medicine and mainstream concerns.

'The illness is part of the person': Discourses of blame, individual responsibility and individuation at a centre for spiritual healing in the North of England (2005)
Journal Article
McClean, S. (2005). 'The illness is part of the person': Discourses of blame, individual responsibility and individuation at a centre for spiritual healing in the North of England. Sociology of Health and Illness, 27(5), 628-648. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00459.x

While the growth in usage and practice of varying forms of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) continues apace, social science has increasingly turned to CAM's often individualistic approach to health and illness. CAM has been perceived as b... Read More about 'The illness is part of the person': Discourses of blame, individual responsibility and individuation at a centre for spiritual healing in the North of England.

From schism to continuum? The problematic relationship between expert and lay knowledge - An exploratory conceptual synthesis of two qualitative studies (2005)
Journal Article
McClean, S., & Shaw, A. (2005). From schism to continuum? The problematic relationship between expert and lay knowledge - An exploratory conceptual synthesis of two qualitative studies. Qualitative Health Research, 15(6), 729-749. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732304273927

Ideas about lay and expert knowledge increasingly underscore debates within qualitative health research. In this article, the authors develop an exploratory synthesis of two qualitative studies in which they critique the lay-expert divide, suggesting... Read More about From schism to continuum? The problematic relationship between expert and lay knowledge - An exploratory conceptual synthesis of two qualitative studies.

Doctoring the spirit: Exploring the use and meaning of mimicry and parody at a healing centre in the North of England (2003)
Journal Article
McClean, S. (2003). Doctoring the spirit: Exploring the use and meaning of mimicry and parody at a healing centre in the North of England. Health, 7(4), 483-500. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593030074006

The widespread increase of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in western societies has been well documented, yet biomedicine has not been significantly challenged by this resurgence. Even within the more esoteric practices such as spiritual... Read More about Doctoring the spirit: Exploring the use and meaning of mimicry and parody at a healing centre in the North of England.