Rosalynn A. Vega
Physicians of the Future: Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
Physicians of the Future: Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine
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Physicians of the Future explores the hidden logics of inclusion and exclusion in functional medicine, revealing how practitioners leverage social media to relate to patients and build practices as "doctor-influencers." Vega argues that FM practices prioritize the individual while inadvertently reinscribing inequities based on race and class, opening avenues of possibility for FM interlocutors wrestling with their responsibility for making functional medicine accessible to all.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 21 May 2024
Publisher: University of Texas Press
The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine (FM) is presented in the book Physicians of the Future. Rosalynn Vega investigates the hidden logics of inclusion and exclusion in FM, a holistic form of personalized medicine that targets chronic disease. Vega uncovers how some FM practitioners who are former chronic disease sufferers turn their illness narratives into a form of social capital, leveraging social media to relate to patients and build practices as "doctor-influencers." She argues that power and authority operate distinctly in FM when compared to conventional medicine, largely because FM services are paid for out of pocket by socioeconomically privileged "clients." Vega studies how FM practitioners engage in entrepreneurship of their own while critiquing the profit motives of the existing healthcare system, pharmaceutical industry, and insurance industry. Using data culled from online support groups, conferences, docuseries, blogs, podcasts, YouTube, and TED Talks, as well as her own battles with chronic illness, Vega argues that FM practices prioritize the individual while inadvertently reinscribing inequities based on race and class. Ultimately, she opens avenues of possibility for FM interlocutors wrestling with their responsibility for making functional medicine accessible to all.
Weight: 513g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781477328682
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