Rachel D Thorpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 365592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel D Thorpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel D |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorpe |
| SIGNATURE | THORPE R D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Doing' chronic illness? Complementary medicine use among people living with HIV/Aids in Australia
This article takes the use of complementary medicine by a group of people living with HIV/AIDS as the starting point for exploring the options for living with chronic illness in contemporary western societies. Some authors have suggested that the situation of living with chronic illness may not be a significant departure from the process of negotiating choice that is theorised to be a defining feature of late-modern society and that there are now…
Integrating biomedical and CAM approaches
This paper discusses the perspectives of 18 people who were living with HIV/AIDS in Melbourne, Australia, and who were using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) alongside biomedicine. I argue that although people may perceive the holistic focus of CAM to be more desirable than the more pathogenic focus of biomedicine, a holistic approach is also associated with limitations. In this study, participants were motivated to use CAM because of…
Doing' chronic illness? Complementary medicine use among people living with HIV/Aids in Australia
This article takes the use of complementary medicine by a group of people living with HIV/AIDS as the starting point for exploring the options for living with chronic illness in contemporary western societies. Some authors have suggested that the situation of living with chronic illness may not be a significant departure from the process of negotiating choice that is theorised to be a defining feature of late-modern society and that there are now…
Integrating biomedical and CAM approaches
This paper discusses the perspectives of 18 people who were living with HIV/AIDS in Melbourne, Australia, and who were using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) alongside biomedicine. I argue that although people may perceive the holistic focus of CAM to be more desirable than the more pathogenic focus of biomedicine, a holistic approach is also associated with limitations. In this study, participants were motivated to use CAM because of…
Doing' chronic illness? Complementary medicine use among people living with HIV/Aids in Australia
This article takes the use of complementary medicine by a group of people living with HIV/AIDS as the starting point for exploring the options for living with chronic illness in contemporary western societies. Some authors have suggested that the situation of living with chronic illness may not be a significant departure from the process of negotiating choice that is theorised to be a defining feature of late-modern society and that there are now…
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 work) · Bioinformatics (1 work) · Biomedicine (1 work) · Chronic disease (1 work) · Engineering (1 work)