Background The prevalence of CAM use is increasing. This integrative review investigated
New Zealand healthcare professionals' practice of, attitudes toward, and knowledge about …

The professional identity of psychiatry depends on it being regarded as one amongst many
medical specialties and sharing ideals of good practice with other specialties, an important …

This review paper adds to recent social science interrogation of common boundaries
between CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) and biomedicine, by examining an …

INTRODUCTION: Effective communication is integral to the general practice consultation,
yet it is acknowledged that problems commonly occur. Previous research has shown that …

Public Health, Personal Health and Pills explores the processes and effects of the
increasing governance of our lives through pharmaceuticals, looking at the moral …

With new methods of treatment standardisation resulting in various benefits for patient
outcomes, evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice have emerged as …

Background Effective communication is crucial to any doctor-patient consultation, not least in
pregnancy where the outcome affects more than one person. While higher levels of patient …

Complementary and Alternative Medicine is a sociological investigation of complementary
and alternative medicine (CAM) in contemporary society, and an exploration of the forces …

This paper discusses the perspectives of 18 people who were living with HIV/AIDS in
Melbourne, Australia, and who were using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) …

This article explores processes of legitimising health knowledge in three different spaces:
the clinic, the home and the multidisciplinary meeting. It considers the ways in which …