TAILIEUCHUNG - MULTIPLE MEDICAL REALITIES Patients and Healers in Biomedical, Alternative and Traditional Medicine_2

When good science makes an advance it pauses and turns to reacquaint itself with the modes of thought that immediately preceded it. Science orients itself with respect to these modes of thought, examines its connections, debts and disputes with them, decides whether it is operating at a different level of analysis and with respect to different interests, conceptualisations and subject matter. The present volume is a case in point of good science in this sense. It addresses medical pluralism, a founding concept of the field of medical anthropology. To the consideration of pluralism is added medical anthropology's more recent concern with body, self and experience. These articles demonstrate, with. | 6 Pluralisms of Provision Use and Ideology Homoeopathy in South London Christine A. Barry Homoeopathy represents an interesting case of pluralism of healthcare provision. It was one of the earlier of the currently popular alternative therapies to arrive in the United Kingdom in the early nineteenth century Porter 1997 . It became one of the earliest of the modern alternative therapies to be offered by orthodox physicians and integrated into the orthodox health care system. Homoeopathy was incorporated into the National Health Service NHS at its inception in 1947 becoming the first of the alternative therapies to be offered in tandem with orthodox healthcare services in the NHS Nicholls 1992 . Homoeopathy arrived in Britain shortly after it had been established in the early 1800s by a German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Hahnemann developed a new system of medicine based on the principle of treating like with like. He discovered this law of similars when he ingested the bark of the Chinchona tree Quinine and experienced a fever similar to malarial symptoms. He went on to chart the action of a wide variety of substances through proving testing them on healthy people. The classical homoeopathy that he developed involves trying to match the overall picture of a person s symptoms to the remedy that itself produces the most similar pattern of symptoms in the healthy. Dr Quin brought homoeopathy to England in 1828. It quickly evolved into two distinct forms of homoeopathy each operating according to different principles and practiced by groups of homoeopaths with different training and philosophical principles. 90 Christine A. Barry Dr Quin was medically trained. He set up the British Homoeopathic Society which restricted membership to doctors and was rooted in reactionary political principles. It was a hierarchical elitist organisation modelled on the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians. Hahnemann s ideas were tempered by integrating them with medical ideas and .

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