| Medicine, rhetoric and undermining: managing credibility in homeopathic practice. | |
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PMID: 18439968 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This article examines homeopathic practitioners 'real life' accounts, and illustrates the ways in which they negotiate their homeopathic practices as contingently formulated ongoing social events in research interview settings. Interview transcripts were analysed in a qualitative framework using discourse analysis. The findings show that practitioners construct homeopathy and defend their own individual practices either by 'alignment-with-medicine' or by 'boosting-the-credibility-of-homeopathy'. Homeopathy is also negotiated and sustained as an 'alternative' to notions of conventional medicine, which is the accepted yardstick for practice or as a practice that is portrayed as problematic. Overall, managing personal credibility is accomplished through specific ways of accounting that tend to marginalise homeopathy. Developing and establishing homeopathic practice further as a discipline in its own right is offered as a 'nucleus' to reduce continuing marginalisation. |
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Authors:
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C Campbell |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Homeopathy : the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy Volume: 97 ISSN: 1476-4245 ISO Abbreviation: Homeopathy Publication Date: 2008 Apr |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-04-28 Completed Date: 2008-06-03 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 101140517 Medline TA: Homeopathy Country: Scotland |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 76-82 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, UK. craig@therapeutichomeopathy.com |
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Adult Attitude of Health Personnel* Clinical Competence / standards* Cooperative Behavior Great Britain Homeopathy / organization & administration* Humans Middle Aged Physician's Practice Patterns / organization & administration* Professional-Patient Relations* Questionnaires Social Perception* |
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