Anette Forss, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Time: 12:15 p.m.
Place: 2U Conference Room, Room 2019, Claire Fagin Hall
Information: ehweiss@nursing.upenn.edu or 215-898-4502
Abstract: The increased use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among patients in USA and the Western world has gained research interests in recent years. Two themes are notable in the CAM-related research literature. First, there is a preoccupation with controlling and defining effects, risks and outcomes of CAM therapies. Second, there is a preoccupation with definitions, boundaries and intersections between caring (often seen as the domain and outcome of nursing and CAM), curing (generally defined as the domain and outcome of biomedical oriented health care), and healing (mostly seen as the domain and outcome of CAM) that reflects different views on where power is believed, and not believed, to reside. Forss will discuss how combining philosophy of technology and multi-sited ethnography in a cross -ultural study in Sweden and USA allow for a new perspective on the definitions, boundaries and intersections between caring, curing and healing in CAM related research.
Anette Forss, PhD, RN, is Visiting Scholar, Technoscience Research Group, Dept. of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Unit for Studies of Integrative Health Care. She is on leave 2007-2010, from the Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences & Society, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.