A pluralist challenge to "integrative medicine": Feyerabend and Popper on the cognitive value of alternative medicine

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C :Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 392-400

  Kidd, Ian James ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Alternative medicine; Feyerabend; Integrative medicine; Pluralism; Popper

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; FEYERABEND; HUMAN; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PLURALISM; POPPER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; FEYERABEND; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; PLURALISM; POPPER;

ACUPUNCTURE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HUMANS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE;

EID: 84881229504     PISSN: 13698486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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