A debate: Homeopathy - Quackery or a key to the future of medicine?

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-15

  Novella, Steven ^a   Roy, Rustum ^b   Marcus, Donald ^c   Bell, Iris R ^d   Davidovitch, Nadav ^e   Saine, Andre ^f   Gold, Peter ^g  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^f Canadian Academy of Homeopathy   (Canada)

^g Gold Orluk and Partners LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; GRAPHITE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DILUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUACKERY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EUROPE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FORECASTING; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; QUACKERY; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38749143330     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/acm.2007.0770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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