Release: The acupuncture clinic as a therapeutic, health-enabling place

IF 3.8 2区 医学 Q1 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Health & Place Pub Date : 2024-07-25 DOI:10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103321
Neil Marshall
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This paper critically reappraises the work of Wilbert Gesler (1992) on ‘therapeutic landscapes’ to explore the dual role of the acupuncture clinic as experienced by couples undergoing fertility treatment. Drawing on qualitative research in Ireland, I argue that the acupuncture clinic acts as a therapeutic space in two senses. First, the patient-acupuncturist relationship contributes to patient emotional support and wellbeing, with the clinic providing emotional sanctuary. Second, the clinic provides a therapeutic complement to allopathic approaches to fertility treatment, with the acupuncturist providing informational support which informs patient decision-making and, in some cases, arguably contributing to the treatment itself. In exploring the therapeutic and health-enabling importance of the acupuncture clinic, this paper adds important qualitative depth to an aspect of assisted reproduction that has become an essential complement to the medical process to many couples, but has arguably remained neglected in academic research.

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发布:针灸诊所作为治疗和促进健康的场所。
本文对威尔伯特-格斯勒(Wilbert Gesler,1992 年)关于 "治疗景观 "的研究进行了批判性的重新评估,以探讨接受生育治疗的夫妇所体验到的针灸诊所的双重作用。根据在爱尔兰进行的定性研究,我认为针灸诊所在两种意义上充当了治疗空间。首先,病人与针灸师的关系有助于病人的情感支持和健康,诊所提供了情感庇护所。其次,针灸诊所为对抗疗法的生育治疗提供了一种治疗补充,针灸师提供信息支持,为患者的决策提供依据,在某些情况下,可以说对治疗本身也有帮助。通过探讨针灸诊所在治疗和促进健康方面的重要性,本文为辅助生殖的一个方面增加了重要的定性深度,该方面已成为许多夫妇在医疗过程中必不可少的补充,但在学术研究中可能一直被忽视。
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Health & Place
Health & Place PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-
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176
审稿时长
29 days
期刊介绍: he journal is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of all aspects of health and health care in which place or location matters.
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