Defining and describing complementary and alternative medicine

Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 49-57

  O'Connor, Bonnie B ^a   Calabrese, Carlo ^b   Cardeña, Etzel ^c   Eisenberg, David ^d   Fincher, Judith ^e   Hufford, David J ^f   Jonas, Wayne B ^g   Kaptchuk, Ted ^d   Martin, Steven C ^h   Scott, Anne W ⁱ   Zhang, Xiaorui ^j  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BASTYR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Chrysalis Energy Works   (United States)

^f PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Pact Indonesia   (Indonesia)

^j WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0031092935     PISSN: 10786791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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