Recently added articles from Health Sociology Review:
Introduction - Taking stock of integrative medicine: Broadening biomedicine or co-option of complementary and alternative medicine?
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In response to the emergence of the holistic health movement in the early 1970s and the rising popularity of complementary and alternative therapies, a growing number of biomedical physicians and institutions have embraced complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), often ...
Advancing integrative medicine through interprofessional education
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Interprofessional Education (IPE) has the potential to create and sustain the type of vibrant environments needed for Integrative Medicine (IM) to thrive. IPE strategies and initiatives are conducive to the goals of integrative medicine in that both seek to bring together ...
Governing the health of the hybrid self: Integrative medicine, neoliberalism, and the shifting biopolitics of subjectivity
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This paper employs a Foucauldian perspective on the shifting spacialisation of medical knowledge to explore the manner in which integrative medicine is discursively represented by its biomedical architects so as to ensure good cultural fit with neoliberal strategies of ...
Trials and tribulations on the road to implementing integrative medicine in a hospital setting
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In this paper, results are reported from a five year qualitative study involving a stakeholder analysis of a hospital-based centre for integrative medicine. The objective of the study was to identify the barriers and the facilitators for creating integrative medicine in this ...
The problematic nature of conflating use and advocacy in CAM integration: Complexity and differentiation in UK cancer patients' views
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The integration of complementary and alternative medicine into cancer care is widely debated. Advocates of integration frequently cite the popularity of such therapies amongst patients in support of their case. However, little specific empirical attention has been given to how ...