The Reluctant Profession - Homoeopathy and the Search for Legitimacy

Sarah Cant and Ursula Sharma
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Sarah Cant: Roehampton Institute
Ursula Sharma: University of Derby

Work, Employment & Society, 1995, vol. 9, issue 4, 743-762

Abstract: This paper examines a group of lay homoeopaths, represented by the Society of Homoeopathy, and traces the changes that have been made to their organisation, training and knowledge as they attempt to enhance their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, government and orthodox medical profession. The group has acquired a number of `professional' properties, but in so doing have reduced levels of freedom, marginalised factions within the group and failed to gain greater authority in the healthcare market. The homoeopaths themselves thus recognise that there are costs as well as benefits associated with their professional project and so they have undertaken many of the changes reluctantly.

Date: 1995
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