The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Closed?
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The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today : Eyes Half Closed? / MacArtney, John; Wahlberg, Ayo.
I: Qualitative Health Research, Bind 24, Nr. 1, 2014, s. 114-123.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today
T2 - Eyes Half Closed?
AU - MacArtney, John
AU - Wahlberg, Ayo
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Commentators like 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 are constituted as duped, ignorant, irrational, or immoral to explain CAM use. However, this form of problematization can be described as a flight from social science. We explore CAM use in light of the rigorous and robust social scientific body of knowledge. 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.
AB - Commentators like 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 are constituted as duped, ignorant, irrational, or immoral to explain CAM use. However, this form of problematization can be described as a flight from social science. We explore CAM use in light of the rigorous and robust social scientific body of knowledge. 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.
U2 - 10.1177/1049732313518977
DO - 10.1177/1049732313518977
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 24406483
VL - 24
SP - 114
EP - 123
JO - Qualitative Health Research
JF - Qualitative Health Research
SN - 1049-7323
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 117420729