The untenable boundaries of biomedical knowledge: Epistemologies and rhetoric strategies in the debate over evaluating complementary and alternative medicine

Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-155

  Keshet, Yael ^a,b  

^a WESTERN GALILEE COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Boundary work; Clinical trial; Complementary and alternative medicine; Rhetoric; Sociology of knowledge

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; SOCIOLOGY;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 60749088297     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459308099681     Document Type: Article

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