ABSTRACT
What unites modern science with the self-health cultures of the 1990s is the desire for mastery. It is the desire to see, to know and to control. It is the desire to fix meaning and to make outcomes predictable. It is the desire to prove that one has power over disease, the body and the emotions. In short, it is what has been identified as the masculine ‘urge to fathom the secrets of nature’ (Keller, 1990:177).
