This study sought to understand how practitioners of the traditional systems of complementary medicine (CM) were responding to the adoption of their traditional medicine therapies by the mainstream health care practitioners. The occupational domain of traditional CMPs is undergoing significant changes as a result of the continuing popularity of CM with health consumers and the market environment of contemporary health care. Although CM itself has become popular as a topic of research in mainstream health and medical journals, little is known about the perspectives of traditional CMPs or their response to the changes taking place in their occupational domain. / In depth interviews were used as the principle source of data, 20 interviews were conducted with 19 participants who were defined as non-mainstream practitioners from five traditional systems of medicine. Field notes form participant observation at CMP association meetings and professional literature sourced from within the CM sector were also used in the study. This was supported with secondary data sourced from relevant academic literature, accessed after the identification of the main concern of the participants and the formation of the central categories from the interview data. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2006.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/267130 |
| Creators | Wiese, Marlene. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | copyright under review |
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