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T1  - Alternative Medicine is a Useful Concept : [eLetter] 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/228055 
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A1  - Hemilä, Harri 
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Y1  - 2017 
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AB  - Pekka Louhiala argues, "there is no alternative medicine" because "it escapes a meaningful definition, and 'alternative medicine' cannot be clearly differentiated from conventional medicine" [1]. I do not consider that his arguments are valid. Louhiala does not mention the definitions that have been proposed for "alternative medicine". For example, Eisenberg defined alternative medical therapies as "interventions neither taught widely in medical schools nor generally available in US hospitals" [... 
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KW  - 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health 
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