Incommensurable Worldviews? Is Public Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicines Incompatible with Support for Science and Conventional Medicine?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Stoneman, Paul ^a   Sturgis, Patrick ^b   Allum, Nick ^c   Sibley, Elissa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATHY; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC OPINION; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HOMEOPATHY; HUMANS; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 84873876664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053174     Document Type: Article

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