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MacArtney, John I. and Wahlberg, Ayo (2014) The problem of complementary and alternative medicine use today. Qualitative Health Research, 24 (1). pp. 114-123. doi:10.1177/1049732313518977 ISSN 1049-7323.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732313518977
Abstract
Commentators such as Goldacre, Dawkins, and Singh and Ernst are worried that the rise in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) represents a flight from science propagated by enemies of reason. We outline what kind of problem CAM use is for these commentators, and find that users of CAM have been constituted as duped, ignorant, irrational, or immoral in explaining CAM use. However, this form of problematization can be described as a flight from social science. We explore CAM use in light of a rigorous and robust social scientific body of knowledge about how individuals engage with CAM. By pointing to the push and pull factors, CAM user’s experiences of their body, and the problem of patient choice in CAM use, we summarize some of the key findings made by social scientists and show how they trouble many of the reasoned assumptions about CAM use.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Qualitative Health Research | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications, Inc. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1049-7323 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 2014 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 24 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 114-123 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1049732313518977 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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