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Making sense of “alternative”, “complementary”, “unconventional” and “integrative” medicine: exploring the terms and meanings through a textual analysis

BACKGROUND: Medical pluralism has flourished throughout the Western world in spite of efforts to legitimize Western biomedical healthcare as “conventional medicine” and thereby relegate all non-physician-related forms of healthcare to an “other” category. These “other” practitioners have been referr...

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Autores principales: Ng, Jeremy Y., Boon, Heather S., Thompson, Alison K., Whitehead, Cynthia R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4875612/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27206976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12906-016-1111-3