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ItemTaking stock of integrative medicine: Broadening biomedicine or co-option of complementary and alternative medicine?Baer, HA ; Coulter, I (Informa UK Limited, 2008-12)
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ItemThe Australian Dominative Medical System: A Reflection of Social Relations in the Larger SocietyBaer, H (WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 2008-12)This paper posits a working or tentative model of medical pluralism, a pattern in which multiple medical sub‐systems co‐exist, or what I term the Australian dominative medical system. I argue that whereas the Australian medical system with its various medical sub‐systems was pluralistic, that is more or less on an equal footing, in the nineteenth century, by the early twentieth century it became a plural or dominative one in the sense that biomedicine came to clearly dominate other medical sub‐systems. This paper also explores the growing interest of biomedicine and the Australian Government in complementary medicine to which Australians have increasingly turned over the course of the past three decades or so.