Moving forward? Complementary and alternative practitioners seeking self-regulation

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The article examines strategies used by three primary complementary and alternative medicine groups to professionalize their fields. These include increasing group cohesion, participating in peer-assessment research, improving practice standards, and enhancing educational standards. Discussion focuses on the fields of traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, and naturopathy.

Management dynamics, Medicine, Practice, Political aspects, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Medical practice, Medicine, Chinese, Traditional Chinese medicine

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Self, agency and the surgical collective: detachment

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The article examines the socio-technical environment in which surgical patients create concepts of self and agency during post-surgical care. Data are drawn from studies conducted in a neurosurgical clinic; theoretical discussion focuses on the material and social components of patient reorganization of relationships between themselves, their world, and others.

Psychological aspects, Patients, Environmental psychology, Postoperative care

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How sociology can save bioethics . . . maybe

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The author posits that tools used for ethnographic analysis may be helpful in developing a more robust discipline of bioethics, particularly the use of Foucault's idea of discursive formations as a framework.

Methods, Usage, Comparative analysis, Ethnology, Bioethics, Ethnological methods, Discourse analysis, Foucault, Michel

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