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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | 'Becoming accepted': The complementary and alternative medicine practitioners' response to the uptake and practice of traditional medicine therapies by the mainstream health sector |
Author: | Wiese, M. Oster, C. |
Citation: | Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the social study of health, illness and medicine, 2010; 14(4):415-433 |
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
ISSN: | 1363-4593 1461-7196 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Marlene Wiese, Candice Oster |
Abstract: | This Australian study sought to understand how practitioners of the traditional systems of what is now termed complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are responding to the adoption of their traditional medicine therapies by the mainstream health care system, and the practice of these therapies by mainstream health care practitioners. A grounded theory approach was used for this study. In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 participants who were non-mainstream practitioners from five traditional systems of medicine — Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Naturopathy, Homeopathy and Western Herbal Medicine. Four main conceptual categories were identified: Losing Control of the CAM Occupational Domain (the participants’ main concern); Personal Positioning; Professional Positioning (the core category); and Legitimacy.These categories formed the elements of the substantive theory of ‘becoming accepted’ as a legitimate health care provider in the mainstream health system, which explained the basic social process that the study’s participants were using to resolve their main concern. |
Keywords: | complementary and alternative medicine grounded theory profession and professionalization |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2010 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1363459309359718 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459309359718 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Psychology publications |
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