Perceptions of evidence-based medicine: Traditional acupuncturists in the UK and resistance to biomedical modes of evaluation

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 412-429

  Jackson, Sue ^a   Scambler, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Co optation; Evidence; Evidence based practice; Paradigmatic rivalry

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EVALUATION STUDIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 34247562224     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00494.x     Document Type: Article

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