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Bounding biomedicine : evidence and rhetoric in the new science of alternative medicine
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During the 1990s, an unprecedented number of Americans turned to complementary and alternative medicine, an umbrella term encompassing chiropractic, energy healing, herbal medicine, homeopathy, med...
During the 1990s, an unprecedented number of Americans turned to complementary and alternative medicine, an umbrella term encompassing chiropractic, energy healing, herbal medicine, homeopathy, meditation, naturopathy, and traditional Chinese medicine. By 1997, nearly half the US population was seeking CAM, spending at least $27 billion out of pocket.'Bounding Biomedicine' centers on this boundary-changing era, looking at how consumer demand shook the health care hierarchy. Drawing on scholarship in rhetoric and science and technology studies, the book examines how the medical profession scrambled to maintain its position of privilege and prestige, even as its foothold appeared to be crumbling.
Details
- Creator
- Colleen Derkatch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016
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- 1 online resource : illustrations
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- ISBNs
- 9780226345987, 022634598X, 9780226345840, 022634584X
- OCLC
- ocn945663114
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CAM enters biomedicine -- Rhetoric at the fringes of medicine -- Mapping biomedical boundaries -- Analyzing a rhetorical moment -- Evidence, rhetoric, and disciplinary boundaries -- Biomedicine's shifting terrain: from intuition and experience to "evidence" -- Quantitative evidence and jurisdictional control -- Medical-professional strategies of exclusion -- Patrolling professional borders -- Constituting the medical profession -- Peer review as professional self-regulation -- Categorizing complementary and alternative medicine -- CAM à la carte -- Scientific methods at the edge of biomedicine -- Idealizing evidence: scientific methods and CAM research -- Idealizing research: the genre of the randomized controlled trial report -- Method as a boundary argument -- Efficacy as a boundary object -- Precincts of care in CAM research -- Models of clinical practice -- Regulating rhetorical interaction -- Purifying placebo effects -- Patient choice across medical models -- Dietary supplements and patient agency -- Professional borders in popular media -- The newsweek special report as a biomedical "discourse moment" -- Reporting the new science -- "Does it really work?" : constructing biomedicine in the media -- Mapping boundaries of expertise in newsweek -- Displaced stories about CAM and CAM research -- Conclusion: boundaries as entry points
Subjects
- Alternative medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Alternative medicine -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Complementary Therapies -- history.
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- History, 20th Century.
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- United States.
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