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9780415266994

Mainstreaming Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415266994

  • ISBN10:

    0415266998

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-01-07
  • Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

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Summary

The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicineallows a complex and informative picture to emerge of the different social forces at play in the integration of CAM with orthodox medicine.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations ix
Notes on contributors x
Foreword: the end(s) of scientific medicine? xiii
BRYAN S. TURNER
Introduction 1(10)
PHILIP TOVEY, GARY EASTHOPE AND JON ADAMS
PART I Consumption in cultural context
1 Consumption as activism: an examination of CAM as part of the consumer movement in health
11(14)
MELINDA GOLDNER
2 Health as individual responsibility: possibilities and personal struggle
25(24)
KAHRYN HUGHES
PART II The structural context of the state and the market
3 Evidence-based medicine and CAM
49(15)
EVAN WILLIS AND KEVIN WHITE
4 The regulation of practice: practitioners and their interactions with organisations
64(17)
KEVIN DEW
5 The corporatisation and commercialisation of CAM
81(22)
FRALA COLLYER
PART III Boundary contestation in the workplace
6 Integration and paradigm clash: the practical difficulties of integrative medicine
103(20)
IAN COULTER
7 CAM practitioners and the professionalisation process: a Canadian comparative case study
123(17)
HEATHER BOON, SANDY WELSH, MERRIJOY KELNER AND BEVERLEY WELLMAN
8 Demarcating the medical/non-medical border: Occupational boundary-work within GPs' accounts of their integrative practice
140(18)
JON ADAMS
9 CAM and nursing: from advocacy to critical sociology
158(17)
JON ADAMS AND PHILIP TOVEY
Postscript 175(3)
PHILIP TOVEY, GARY EASTHOPE AND JON ADAMS
Index 178

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