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dc.contributor.authorLewis, M
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-04T12:41:04Z
dc.date.available2019-07-04T12:41:04Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn0141-9889
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-9566.12865
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/385890
dc.description.abstractComplementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has developed into a complex and formidable commercial, sociocultural and political force in Australia, and given its influence, it is a relevant subject for scholars, health practitioners, health communicators, journalists, policy-makers, and consumers of healthcare products and services. This research will consider a relative newcomer to the claims-making space about CAM in the Australian health media-scape; the Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM), an activist group of medical practitioners, researchers, and scientists, founded in late 2011. Using content analysis supported by NVivo, I searched for articles specifically referring to FSM and measured the patterns and frequencies of media frames, intonation and sources that are featured in Australian mainstream news reports between December 2011 and April 2017. The negative headlining and intonation of reports predominated, along with framing CAM as part of a lucrative, undisciplined and unethical industry as well as an illegitimate healthcare approach, more broadly. The findings offer insight into how journalists respond, replicate or reconstruct the framings that are provided by an influential and elite group of medical practitioners and scientists, and readdresses issues surrounding the need for more critical health reporting in Australia.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWILEY
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom831
dc.relation.ispartofpageto851
dc.relation.ispartofissue5
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSociology of Health and Illness
dc.relation.ispartofvolume41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth services and systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory and philosophy of specific fields
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4410
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5002
dc.titleDe-legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine-CAM debate in Australian media reports
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.rights.copyright© 2019 Foundation for the Sociology of Health & Illness. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: De-legitimising complementary medicine: framings of the Friends of Science in Medicine-CAM debate in Australian media reports, Sociology of Health and Illness, Volume 41, Issue 5, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12865. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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gro.griffith.authorLewis, Monique R.


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