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SUBMITTER: Shim JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734740 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20171218 12
Drawing on the theory of social action in organizational and institutional sociology, this paper examines the behavioral consequences of plural logics of action. It addresses the question based on the empirical case of plural medical systems that are composed of both biomedicine and alternative medicine. Applying mixed methods of a cross-national panel data analysis and a content analysis of medical journal articles, it finds that plural systems affect health outcomes negatively when tensions be ...[more]