Complementary medicine/CMT101/Resources

Reading List

Week 1: Complementary medicine – its products and its practitioners.

• Connor, L (2012) Relief, risk and renewal: Mixed therapy regimens in an Australian suburb in Adams, J Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine: an International Reader. NY: Palgrave Macmillan pp18-25.

• Easthope, G Consuming health: the market for complementary and alternative mediine (2004) Australian Journal of Primary Health 10:2 pp 68-75

• Steel, A, Leach, L, Wardle, J, Sibbritt, D, Schloss, J Diezell H & Adams, J 2018. 'The Australian Complementary Medicine Workforce: a Profile of 1,306 Pracitioners from the PRACI Study'. Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (epub ahead of print) 1-10

Week 2: Utilisation of CAM

• Reid, R., et al. (2016). "Complementary medicine use by the Australian population: a critical mixed studies systematic review of utilisation, perceptions and factors associated with use." BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 16: 176.

• Have a look at the following are extra readings if you are interested in following up the arguments that complementary medicine is not just 'middle-class medicine'. There are the articles referred to in that part of the lecture -

• Singer, J and Adams J (2014) Integrating complementary and alternative medicine into mainstream healthcare services: the perspectives of health service managers. BMJ Complementary Alternative Medicine 14:167

• Holmes, T. (2016). ‘Alternative worldviews and health-consumer agency are associated with complementary medicine (CAM) use among poorer rural consumers in Australia.’ In Cherniack EP, and Holmes TFM (eds.) Alternative Medicine: Perceptions, Uses and Benefits, and Clinical Implications. Nova Science, Nova Publishers USA, pp.21-48.

Week 3: Explaining the Popularity of Complementary Medicines

• Andrews, G., Adams, J., Segrott, J. & Lui, C. (2012) 'The profile of complementary and alternative medicine users and reasons for complementary and alternative medicine use', pages 231-237 in Adams, J, Andrews, G., Barnes, J., Magin, P., & Broom, A. (eds) Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine: an international reader. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Broom, A. (2014) 'The sociology of complementary and alternative medicine' pages 423-438 in Germov, J. (ed) Second Opinion: an introduction to health sociology, 5th edition, Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press. (this link will take you to the reading list. Use the tab 'Texts' to locate Germov, and then this chapter - chapter 22)

If you would like to read more about the ideology of 'Healthism' try these readings:

• Crawford, R. (1980) 'Healthism and the medicalization of everyday life', International journal of health services, 10(3): 365-388.

• Cheek, J. (2008) 'Healthism: A new conservatism?', Qualitative Health Research, 18(7): 974-982.

Week 4: Debates about Complementary Medicine: the relationship between Complementary Medicine and Orthodox Medicine

• Saks, Mike (1996) ‘From Quackery to Complementary Medicine:The Shifting Boundaries Between Orthodox and Unorthodox Medical Knowledge’ pages 27-43 Chapter 1 in Cant, Sarah and Sharma, Ursula (eds) Complementary and Alternative Medicines: Knowledge in Practice, Free Association Books: London.

• Adams, Jon (2004) ‘Demarking the medical/non-medical border: Occupational boundary-work within GPs’ accounts of their integrative practices’, pages 140-157 Chapter 8 in Tovey, Phil, Easthope, Gary and Adams, Jon (eds) The Mainstreaming of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Studies in Social Context, Routledge: London.