Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Processes of Legitimation, Professionalization, and Cooption

The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 373-390

  Baer, Hans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical physicians and nurses and holistic health discovery; Biomedicine and array of CAM systems coexisting within hierarchical social arrangements; Biomedicine coopting CAM medicine gaining control over other modalities by co option; Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); Drive for professionalization and legitimation and CAM practitioners emulating biomedicine; Examining patient utilization of CAM; Governmental and corporate involvement in CAM and integrative medicine; Holistic health premises and holistic health subculture; Shift from holistic health to CAM and integrative medicine; Typologies of CAM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878337445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314786.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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