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Bounding biomedicine : evidence and rhetoric in the new science of alternative medicine / Colleen Derkatch.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226345987
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • R733 .B686 2016
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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