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The Problem of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Today: Eyes Half Closed?

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Commentators such as 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 have been constituted as duped, ignorant, irrational, or immoral in explaining CAM use. However, this form of problematization can be described as a flight from social science. We explore CAM use in light of a rigorous and robust social scientific body of knowledge about how individuals engage with CAM. 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.

Keywords: evidence-based practice; health care, alternative and complementary; knowledge utilization; meta-analysis; research, mixed methods; sociology

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Judul Seri

Qualitative Health Research

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Penerbit

London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2014

Deskripsi Fisik

Qualitative Health Research 2014, Vol. 24(1) 114– 123

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English

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DOI: 10.1177/1049732

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Edisi

2014, Vol. 24(1)

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METODOLOGI PENELITIAN KUALITATIF

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