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'''Alternative medicine''' is medicine that stands in different kinds of polarities to conventional medicine. The following table contains aspects because of which medical systems may be called alternative.
{| class="wikitable"
|+Possible reasons for being called alternative
!conventional medicine
!alternative medicine
!respective term
|-
|scientific
|not scientific, pseudoscientific
|pseudoscientific medicine
|-
|orthodox, mainstream
|practiced by relatively small groups
|unorthodox medicine
|-
|academic (tought on universities)
|known by common people or staff without academic education
|
|-
|
|quackery
|
|-
|based on western culture
|based on different cultures
|traditional medicine
|-
|Reductionism, materialism
|Acceptance of i.e. life forces, spirit or soul
|
|}
[[Category:Philosophy of medicine]]
[[Category:Alternative medicine]]
[[Category:Stub]]
{| class="wikitable"
|+Possible reasons for being called alternative
!conventional medicine
!alternative medicine
!respective term
|-
|scientific
|not scientific, pseudoscientific
|pseudoscientific medicine
|-
|orthodox, mainstream
|practiced by relatively small groups
|unorthodox medicine
|-
|academic (tought on universities)
|known by common people or staff without academic education
|
|-
|
|quackery
|
|-
|based on western culture
|based on different cultures
|traditional medicine
|-
|Reductionism, materialism
|Acceptance of i.e. life forces, spirit or soul
|
|}
[[Category:Philosophy of medicine]]
[[Category:Alternative medicine]]
[[Category:Stub]]