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Experiments in response-ability: Integrative medicine, rebel doctors and expanding repertoires of care

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Recent years have seen the progressive expansion of Integrative Medicine (IM) as a self-proclaimed movement of medical professionals aiming to radically re-orient medicine's reductionist focus on disease and treatment towards a new approach centred on health and healing. Despite its increasing mainstream visibility, IM remains under-theorised in the social sciences and is often dismissed as a repackaged version of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). As a result, little scholarly attention has been paid to the kinds of questions that IM poses to conventional medicine, or, indeed, why it appears to capture the imagination of an ever-growing number of medical practitioners discontent with the status quo.

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  • Jensen, Nele, 2026. "Experiments in response-ability: Integrative medicine, rebel doctors and expanding repertoires of care," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 397(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:397:y:2026:i:c:s0277953626002030
    DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119127
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