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

  • Derkatch, Colleen
Date:
2016
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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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xiii, 238 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-230) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Evidence, rhetoric, and disciplinary boundaries -- 2. Patrolling professional borders -- 3. Scientific methods at the edge of biomedicine -- 4. Precincts of care in CAM research -- 5. Professional borders in popular media -- Conclusion: boundaries as entry points.

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    History of Medicine
    CD.6.AA10
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  • 9780226345840 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 022634584X (cloth : alk. paper)