Abstract

This article examines professional boundary work in a set of medical journal theme issues about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Whereas these journals claim as their collective goal to bridge and blur boundaries between mainstream and alternative medicine, this article identifies and describes two chief rhetorical strategies through which the journals instead bolster and even expand those boundaries. These two strategies, constituting and categorizing, appear central to the demarcation of biomedical boundaries vis-à-vis CAM.

Journal
Technical Communication Quarterly
Published
2012-07-01
DOI
10.1080/10572252.2012.663744
CompPile
Open Access
Closed
Topics
Export

Citation context

Cited by in this index (8)

  1. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  2. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  3. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  4. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
  5. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Show all 8 →
  1. Technical Communication Quarterly
  2. Technical Communication Quarterly
  3. Communication Design Quarterly

References (66) · 13 in this index

  1. The system of professions: An essay on the division of expert labor
     ↗
  2. Biomedicine and alternative healing systems in America: Issues of class, race, ethnicity,…
  3. Written Communication
  4. Textual dynamics of the professions: Historical and contemporary studies in writing of pr…
  5. Rhetoric Review
Show all 66 →
  1. Genre knowledge in disciplinary communication: Cognition/culture/power
  2. Sorting things out: Classification and its consequences
     ↗
  3. 10.1001/archpedi.152.11.1077
    Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine  ↗
  4. 10.1001/archsurg.133.11.1177
     ↗
  5. 10.1001/jama.280.18.1580
     ↗
  6. Shaping science with rhetoric: The cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson
     ↗
  7. Landmark essays in rhetorical criticism
  8. 10.1001/archfami.7.6.548
     ↗
  9. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine
  10. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
  11. 10.1001/jama.280.18.1560
     ↗
  12. 10.1080/02691720802559412
     ↗
  13. 10.1001/jama.280.18.1569
     ↗
  14. 10.1001/archpedi.152.11.1154
    Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine  ↗
  15. 10.1001/archsurg.133.11.1187
     ↗
  16. 10.1177/0162243904270713
     ↗
  17. Alternative medicine: An objective assessment
  18. 10.1001/jama.1997.035502300
     ↗
  19. 10.1001/jama.280.18.1618
     ↗
  20. 10.1001/jama.280.18.1601
     ↗
  21. 10.2307/2095325
     ↗
  22. Cultural boundaries of science: Credibility on the line
  23. 10.1001/archinte.158.20.2187
     ↗
  24. Technical Communication Quarterly
  25. 10.1177/095269519000300203
     ↗
  26. 10.1177/1533210109360016
     ↗
  27. Technical Communication Quarterly
  28. 10.1001/jama.280.18.1616
     ↗
  29. Written Communication
  30. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  31. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  32. 10.1001/archotol.124.11.1199
    Archives of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery  ↗
  33. The rhetoric of midwifery: Gender, knowledge, and power
  34. 10.1001/archderm.134.11.1449
     ↗
  35. Complementary and alternative medicine for older adults: A guide to holistic approaches t…
  36. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  37. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  38. Quacks: Fakers and charlatans in English medicine
  39. Alternative medicine: An objective assessment
  40. 10.1093/humrep/17.3.528
     ↗
  41. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  42. Marginal to mainstream: Alternative medicine in America
     ↗
  43. Orthodox and alternative medicine: Politics, professionalization, and health care
  44. 10.1016/0277-9536(93)90287-E
     ↗
  45. Health and the rhetoric of medicine
  46. 10.1177/1363459307074695
     ↗
  47. 10.1001/jama.280.18.1590
     ↗
  48. The recovery of rhetoric: Persuasive discourse and disciplinarity in the human sciences
  49. 10.1001/archderm.134.11.1368
     ↗
  50. Technical Communication Quarterly
  51. Technical Communication Quarterly
  52. 10.1007/s10676-007-9141-7
     ↗
  53. The social transformation of American medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and th…
  54. American medicine as culture
  55. 10.1001/jama.280.18.1623
     ↗
  56. Technical Communication Quarterly
  57. Defining science: A rhetoric of demarcation
  58. 10.1001/archpedi.152.6.606
    Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine  ↗
  59. 10.1001/archpedi.152.6.606
    Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine  ↗
  60. Journal of Business and Technical Communication
  61. The role of complementary and alternative medicine: Accommodating pluralism