TY  - THES
AB  - Since the 1980ies pluralistic medical systems have been getting increasingly popular with sociological and anthropological researchers in the Western world. In these studies the status of a profession is considered to be an important objective of alternative medicine. This focus constitutes the main point of this work. The professionalisation process of traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) within the framework of medical pluralism in Taiwan is the object of observation and analysis. Furthermore, the view is directed to the conflict over jurisdiction within the system of the medical profession. Legitimisation, institutionalisation and standardisation are elaborated as core elements of the professionalisation process. This can be brought into connection with the concept of a New Medical Pluralism in the sense of Cant and Sharma with its four involved groups - state, alternative practitioners, biomedical profession and users. In this text the role of alternative medicine is replaced by the role of Chinese Medicine. The development of traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiwan serves as a model of comparison for the establishment of other forms of healing. 
In the 1990ies TCM doctors already showed important attributes of a profession and were partially integrated in the health system. A new structured education, a broad institutionalisation and standardisation attempts regarding the content had produced the preconditions for that. The partial and structural inclusion of TCM within the National Health Insurance strengthened its position within the health system. The development leads to the establishment of a differentiated New Medical Pluralism in Taiwan. The Traditional Chinese Medicine is composed of a graded spectrum which reaches from the legitimised TCM doctors to the unlegitimised healers. The TCM doctors themselves are split up into academics and non-academics.
DA  - 2003
KW  - Medizinischer Pluralismus
KW  - Professionalisierung
KW  - Chinesische Medizin
KW  - Medizinsoziologie
LA  - ger
PY  - 2003
TI  - Medizinischer Pluralismus und Professionalisierung : Entwicklung der Chinesischen Medizin in Taiwan
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:361-2514
Y2  - 2024-11-22T06:26:12
ER  -