Purpose: This study arose from a praxial problem: how best to communicate with patients
about the mechanism of cranial osteopathy. The problem was explored in a way that …

Drawing on comparative fieldwork in the UK, Pakistan and Australia, this book provides the
first systematic assessment of pathways and access to CAM and how it is used in health …

One of the oldest goals of the medical profession is to benefit, and do no harm to, the patient.
The role of the physician was once a paternal one, with total physician control, and little …

Consumers, health care financing, external and internal competition are factors identified in
the medical literature as prompting change within medicine. I test these factors to determine …

This article, adopting a historical point of view, aims to shed light and provide some insights
into the long-lasting, tortuous process that led to a full recognition of the legitimacy of …

Institutions can be powerful influences on our personal and work lives and can constrain
and enable our behaviors. It is through communication that institutions are created and …

This paper examines the organizational adoption of medically assisted treatments (MAT) for
substance use disorders (SUDs) in a representative sample of 555 US for-profit and not-for …

Introduction As contemporary osteopathy is increasingly mainstreamed into the broader field
of American medicine, it is important to understand how osteopathic physicians' professional …

Objective The purpose of this article is to describe the development of radiology as a
specialty in chiropractic with a comparison to the development of the specialty of radiology in …

Although health communication research and popular literature on physicians have
heightened awareness of the dualisms physicians face, research is yet to focus on the …