Making sense of "alternative", "complementary", "unconventional" and "integrative" medicine: Exploring the terms and meanings through a textual analysis

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ng, Jeremy Y ^a   Boon, Heather S ^a   Thompson, Alison K ^a   Whitehead, Cynthia R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MODEL; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSICIAN; SAFETY; SCOPUS; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; NOMENCLATURE; PUBLICATION;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; NORTH AMERICA; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84974539706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12906-016-1111-3     Document Type: Article

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