Chatwin2008

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Chatwin2008
BibType ARTICLE
Key Chatwin2008
Author(s) John Chatwin
Title Pre-empting 'trouble' in the homeopathic consultation
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Medical EMCA, Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), Medical consultations
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Year 2008
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 40
Number 2
Pages 244–256
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.10.007
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Abstract

Despite high levels of usage by patients, a significant barrier to the widespread integration of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into mainstream healthcare is the lack of acceptable evidence relating to how modalities actually work, and how effective they really are. This can create problems for CAM practitioners at an interactional level. How they explain treatment processes to patients, and deal with the introduction of issues which are often at odds with conventional medical paradigms needs to be approached carefully if credibility and therapeutic alignment are to be maintained. This article utilises conversation analysis (CA) to explore some of the ways in which the practitioners of one particular CAM modality – homoeopathy – manage this potentially difficult interactional arena with new patients.

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