Perspectivas de los médicos acupuntores sobre su práctica y el potencial de la medicina integrativa
Betina Freidin
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - Instituto de Investigaciones Gino Germani
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
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Resumen:
Palabras clave: medicina integrativa, médicos, acupuntura, procesos de segmentación profesional
Abstract:
Perspectives of acupuncture practitioners on their practice and the potential of integrative medicine
Based on 18 interviews with physician acupuncturists, we analyze how they define their clinical practice and differentiate it from mainstream or allopathic medicine. We describe their styles of integration and their views of how the practice of acupuncture has enriched their clinical work. Physicians highlight the holistic and patient-centered approach they have engaged with, and point to the possibilities that unconventional medicines open up for physicians to provide gentle modalities of care, either as an alternative or as an adjunct to biomedical care. A few of them also stress their whish to facilitate a less paternalistic patient-doctor relationship. Physicians’ narratives suggest a process of differentiation and segmentation within the medical profession in terms of their members’ values, identities and commitments.
Key words: integrative medicine, medical doctors, acupuncture, processes of professional segmentation
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