"Alternative Medicine for Alternative Depression": Claimsmaking, Counterknowledge, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Depressives often use both CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) and conventional medicine to treat their depression. However, the use of CAM often contested as certain therapies are considered by some to be counterknowledge. Using data collected from the messages posted to three online newsg...
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| Published in | Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l'ACSI |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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22.10.2013
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | Depressives often use both CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) and conventional medicine to treat their depression. However, the use of CAM often contested as certain therapies are considered by some to be counterknowledge. Using data collected from the messages posted to three online newsgroups, I have analyzed how people use information and discursive strategies to build-up or undermine accounts justifying CAM use or non-use.Les personnes souffrant de dépression font souvent appel à la médecine complémentaire et alternative (MCA) et à la médecine conventionnelle pour traiter leur dépression. Malheureusement, certaines thérapies dites alternatives sont souvent considérés par certains comme étant de la désinformation. À l'aide de données recueillies sur trois forums de discussion en ligne, j'ai analysé comment les gens utilisent l'information et des stratégies discursives pour justifier ou réfuter les arguments visant l'utilisation ou la non-utilisation de la MCA. |
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| ISSN: | 2562-7589 2562-7589 |
| DOI: | 10.29173/cais390 |