The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies in Social Context 1st Edition by Philip Tovey, Gary Easthope, Jon Adams 0415267005 9780415267007
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ISBN 10: 0415267005
ISBN 13: 9780415267007
Author: Philip Tovey, Gary Easthope, Jon Adams
Stepping back from the immediate demands of policy-making, Mainstreaming Complementary and Alternative Medicine allows a complex and informative picture to emerge of the different social forces at play in the integration of CAM with orthodox medicine. Complementing books that focus solely on practice, it will be relevant reading for all students following health studies or healthcare courses, for medical students and medical and healthcare professionals.
Table of contents:
Part I Consumption in cultural context
1.Consumption as activism: an examination of CAM as part of the consumer movement in health
2.Health as individual responsibility: possibilities and personal struggle
Part II The structural context of the state and the market
3. Evidence-based medicine and CAM
4. The regulation of practice: practitioners and their interactions with organisations
5. The corporatisation and commercialisation of CAM
Part III Boundary contestation in the workplace
6. Integration and paradigm clash: the practical difficulties of integrative medicine
7. CAM practitioners and the professionalisation process: a Canadian comparative case study
8. Demarcating the medical/non-medical border: Occupational boundary-work within GPs’ accounts of their integrative practice
9. CAM and nursing: from advocacy to critical sociology
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