التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Network gatekeeping: Complementary medicine information on the websites of medical institutions. |
| المؤلفون: |
Keshet, Yael1 |
| المصدر: |
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness & Medicine. Apr2012, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p151-168. 18p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*Medicine information services, *Conceptual structures, *Content analysis, *World Wide Web, Health services accessibility, Alternative medicine, Consumer information services, Comparative studies, Decision making, Health services administration, Scientific observation, Legal status of patients, Research evaluation, Self-efficacy, Social networks, Integrative medicine, Psychology |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
Israel |
| مستخلص: |
Integrative medicine – complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practised in mainstream healthcare organizations – combines medical treatments based on incommensurable paradigms. As the Internet has been portrayed as a crucial pathway to CAM and sites administered by reputable organizations are considered to be relatively reliable sources of medical information, the research sought to explore and compare the ways in which CAM is presented on the Internet websites of diverse medical institutions. The contents of the websites of the Ministry of Health, the Israeli Medical Association and Israeli healthcare organizations were analysed, using an interdisciplinary theory of network gatekeeping. The websites were analysed not only according to the degree to which they are considered to be informative, but also with regard to the perceptions of integration that they convey. Comparison of the websites of community healthcare organizations and hospitals indicates that while the former display CAM treatments as an attractive commodity, the latter convey a message stressing the need to subject CAM to bio-medical scrutiny. Little or no information was provided concerning a number of important issues, such as research findings about efficacy and safety, risks and ethical considerations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
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