The Sociology of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
The Sociology of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
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DOI：
10.1111/soc4.12182
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发表时间：
2014-06
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Gale N
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作者：
Gale N
补充和替代医学（CAM）和传统医学（TM）是重要的社会现象。本文回顾了有关这一主题的社会学文献。首先，它解决了术语的问题，认为命名过程是对该领域特征的权力和历史复杂性的一瞥。其次，着眼于过去15年的学术研究，考虑了TM/CAM的使用者和实践者的社会学研究在这段时间里是如何发展的。第三，它涉及两个较新的工作领域，即“大图景”和“大问题”。大图景包括对社会层面正在发生的事情提供解释的概念，以约束和实现观察到的社会实践模式（多元主义、一体化、混合性和行动主义）。最重要的问题是，“它有用吗？”'，是认识论之一，重点关注两个发展中的批判性探究领域——第一，医学科学知识生产的社会批判，第二，试图解释干预的本质，即它们是如何工作的。最后，本文考察了社会学的作用。
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and traditional medicine (TM) are important social phenomena. This article reviews the sociological literature on the topic. First, it addresses the question of terminology, arguing that the naming process is a glimpse into the complexities of power and history that characterize the field. Second, focusing on the last 15 years of scholarship, it considers how sociological research on users and practitioners of TM/CAM has developed in that time. Third, it addresses two newer strands of work termed here the ‘big picture’ and the ‘big question’. The big picture includes concepts that offer interpretation of what is happening at a societal level to constrain and enable observed patterns of social practice (pluralism, integration, hybridity and activism). The big question, ‘Does it work?’, is one of epistemology and focuses on two developing fields of critical enquiry – first, social critiques of medical science knowledge production and, second, attempts to explain the nature of interventions, i.e. how they work. Finally, the article examines the role of sociology moving forward.