Alternative medicine
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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.
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 |