ABSTRACT
The literature about professionalisation is full of references to ‘strategies’, ‘projects’. Where orthodox medicine is concerned, quite a lot of research has been done on the ways in which professional education helps to generate certain attitudes of mind. The Society of Homoeopaths has had to make the transition from a coterie of inspired activists to a formally constituted public group with all that this implies in terms of being capable of enforcing ethical codes, guarantee competence of registered members. Where complementary therapy in Britain is concerned, one of the major problems in unifying a community of practitioners so that a national organisation can be formed has been the divisive effect of training having been given in highly diverse establishments with their own distinctive ethos and version of the therapy. In Britain homoeopathy is practised by two main kinds of practitioner, doctor homoeopaths and non-medically qualified homoeopaths.
