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Bounding biomedicine : evidence and rhetoric in the new science of alternative medicine
- Title
- Bounding biomedicine : evidence and rhetoric in the new science of alternative medicine / Colleen Derkatch.
- Author
- Derkatch, Colleen
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | R733 .D4393 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 238 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- 1900 - 1999
- Alternative medicine > United States > History > 20th century
- Alternative medicine > History > United States > 20th century
- Medicine > United States > History > 20th century
- Complementary Therapies > history
- History, 20th Century
- Alternative medicine
- Alternative medicine > Research
- Medicine
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780226345840
- 022634584X
- 9780226345987 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015029053
- 40025985729
- OCLC
- ocn915323965
- 915323965
- SCSB-14174072
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries