CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Kucek, Daria |
|---|---|
| Title | Biomedical Knowledge as a Tool for the Marginalization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Inquiring into the Boundaries of the Croatian Medical Field |
| Summary | This study looks at the social processes of boundary-making in the Croatian medical field. I argue that biomedicine and CAM are the medical systems which are primarily systems of knowledge, practices and culture and that biomedicine as a dominant system uses discursive strategies to reproduce its hierarchies and power structures in order to maintain the boundary in the medical field and protect it from transforming, as this is not in its interest. First, I begin with the investigation whether biomedical physicians and CAM practitioners communicate and if they do, how do they communicate and what are the obstacles, on the one hand, and bridges to communication, on the other hand. Secondly, in order to explicate the aspects of the specific discursive strategies of biomedical domination over the knowledge and practices of CAM, I show the relationship between physicians’ knowledge about CAM and their experience and concomitant interest in it. Third, I analyze three aspects of the boundary in the medical field – the professional, organizational and epistemological aspect. I exemplify this by examining the aspects of these dominative practices in two Croatian cities, Zagreb and Bjelovar. |
| Supervisor | Rajaram, Prem Kumar; Kowalski, Alexandra |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/kucek_daria.pdf |
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