scholarly journals Complementary and Alternative Medicine as a Functional Tendency. Formation of Preferences, Agency, and Diffusion Among Citizenships

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (26) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Antonia Ramirez Perez
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fashion Theory ◽  
Powerful Explanation ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

The work is centered in the social analysis of the formation of preferences and in the description of the social action related with the complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The theoretical framework that will help to show this generation of preferences is the fashion theory and the social tendencies theory. And to illustrate this reality it has been get an empirical body of information from the Seville city, Spain, as case study. The mixed methodology used allows to show the narrative of the process as well as the 'pictures' in particular moments. To the first objective, it has been carried out ethnographic fieldwork from a decade. To the second objective, it has been elaborated a database with the complementary and alternative medicine activities offered in Seville. Both methodologies help to show a map of this disruptive innovation and the shape adopted. The results show that CAM tendency emerges because it is useful to the society. Beyond the seasonal fashions, the irruption of this disruptive fashion indicates a process of social change with a new understanding of the health. In the CAM the preferences are generated for instrumental and axiological reasons, though it seems that axiological rationality would be a powerful explanation when we observe its emergence. And finally the results show a group of innovative people as the agents of the change. Moreover, they would seem to be the group that accelerate the process until the tipping point, from which the trend expands thanks to the processes of mimesis or contagion.

scholarly journals The impact of uncertainty in society on the use of traditional, complementary and alternative medicine: a comparative study on visits to alternative/traditional/folk health care practitioners

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimpei Misawa ◽  
Rie Ichikawa ◽  
Akiko Shibuya ◽  
Yukihiro Maeda ◽  
Ichiro Arai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Structural Level ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

Abstract Background While traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) is gaining increased interest worldwide, the structural factors associated with the usage of TCAM at the social level have not been sufficiently explored. We aim to understand the social structure of uncertainty in society that affects the TCAM usage for men and women. Methods We studied 32 countries using data from the International Social Survey Programme and the World Bank. In this study, we defined TCAM usage as visits to an alternative/traditional/folk health care practitioner during the past 12 months. We performed a correlation analysis and used a generalized linear model . Results The prevalence of TCAM usage in terms of visits to practitioners was 26.1% globally, while usage varied across the 32 countries. Generalized linear models showed that unemployment rate was associated with the prevalence of TCAM usage in terms of visits to practitioners. Conclusions At the social-structural level TCAM usage involving visits to practitioners was related to job insecurity. Job insecurity led to a decrease in TCAM usage regarding visits to practitioners. These findings suggest that it is necessary to consider the social-structural factors of uncertainty in society when designing health policies related to TCAM.

scholarly journals Willingness of Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm.) students to be custodians of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): case study of Kenyatta University, Nairobi

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-63
Author(s):  
Ikoni Ogaji ◽  
Jackson Lubayo ◽  
Fullaila O. Aliyu
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
African Health ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

Appropriate training on standardization of quality characteristics of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices has the potential to pave way for integrative and collaborative healthcare delivery in African health facilities. The purpose of this study was to understand how willing pharmacy students are to taking on the custody of CAM, especially provision of expertise services on traditional medicines. A questionnaire on the willingness of Bachelor of Pharmacy students to be trained and certified as CAM experts in an integrated health system was administered to one hundred and nineteen (119) pharmacy students of Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. Ninety-four respondents (78.99 %) were excited to be trained on CAM and become experts on CAM alongside orthodox but not solely on CAM. Majority of the respondents acknowledged the important role of CAM in the nation’s healthcare delivery systembut were not ready to be trained solely as such without the commitments of governments for better status. The study revealed that with necessary support from governments and stakeholders, specialists from those desiring to study pharmacy can be developed to focus on safety, purity and efficacy of CAM, especially traditional medicines, to enhance their incorporation into the national healthcare system. Keywords: Pharmacy students; CAM; Experts; Integrative healthcare system

scholarly journals Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Brazil: one concept, different meanings

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 2023-2028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Filice de Barros ◽  
Everardo Duarte Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽  
Complementary Medicine ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Sociology Of Knowledge ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medical Diagnostic ◽  
Complementary And Alternative

This article discusses the various meanings ascribed to the concept of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Brazil, where research on this theme has a limited tradition in terms of influences from anthropology, sociology of knowledge and epistemology, and sociology of CAM and clinical medicine. By means of the concepts identified in the literature, we elaborated a table with types of meanings. The terms Alternative Medicine and Complementary Medicine were found in more than one of the types in the table. Alternative Medicine identifies a model of medical practice influenced by the social, political, and economic context and by the logic of scientific production based on opposing pairs. Beginning in the 1980s, the important volume of reflections on official medical practice and the search for other forms of knowledge production led to the creation of the concept of Complementary Medicine. Its meaning is that of a new epistemological form of knowledge production between the official and alternative poles, a set of therapeutic practices, and confusion with the nomenclature for ancillary medical diagnostic tests, referred to in Portuguese as "complementary exams".

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