Science friction: cervical cancer and the contesting of medical beliefs
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Issues are discussed regarding the ways beliefs about cervical cancer became contested within New Zealand's medical profession from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. An inquiry into medical practice presided over by the laity and an appeal to moral factors as well as the scientific-technical closed disputes over knowledge claim about this cancer.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2000
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How 'we' are different from 'them': occupational boundary maintenance in the treatment of musculo-skeletal problems
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An overview is presented on strategies used by medical professionals who treat musculo-skeletal problems, and how they believe these strategies distinguish them from others in the medical field. Strategies include holistic and preventive approaches, treating the causes of musculo-skeletal injuries, rather than just the symptoms they produce.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2001
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Apostasy to orthodoxy: debates before a Commission of Inquiry into chiropractic
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The Royal Commission of Inquiry assessment of chiropractic in New Zealand in 1978 is discussed, and revealed a tension between the medical debate and the chiropractic one. A compromise gave chiropractic a place in the public health service in New Zealand and 'de-radicalized' its claims.
Publication Name: Sociology of Health & Illness
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0141-9889
Year: 2000
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