ABSTRACT
Stepping back from the immediate demands of policy-making, Mainstreaming Complementary and Alternative Medicine allows a complex and informative picture to emerge of the different social forces at play in the integration of CAM with orthodox medicine. Complementing books that focus solely on practice, it will be relevant reading for all students following health studies or healthcare courses, for medical students and medical and healthcare professionals.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
Consumption in cultural context
chapter 1|14 pages
Consumption as activism
An examination of CAM as part of the consumer movement in health
part II|54 pages
The structural context of the state and the market
chapter 4|17 pages
The regulation of practice
Practitioners and their interactions with organisations
part III|74 pages
Boundary contestation in the workplace
chapter 7|17 pages
CAM practitioners and the professionalisation process
A Canadian comparative case study
chapter 8|18 pages
Demarcating the medical/non-medical border
Occupational boundary-work within GPs’ accounts of their integrative practice
