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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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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