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Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine) [1] is a branch of medical science that applies biological and physiological principles to clinical practice. Biomedicine stresses standardized, evidence-based treatment validated through biological research, with treatment administered via formally ...
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However, conventional medicine in previous centuries included whatever treatment was considered "normal" or "good" by that culture, including astrology (c.f. how influenza was named) and herbalism. Evidence-based medicine Evidence-based medicine is medicine that uses scientific proof to make decisions. If you have a good, up-to-date ...
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When western, or conventional, medicine is found lacking, you may wonder about eastern medicine. So what are the differences between both types of medicine? Find out in this episode of Wellness ...
Loose terminology may also be used to suggest that a dichotomy exists when it does not, e.g., the use of the expressions "Western medicine" and "Eastern medicine" to suggest that the difference is a cultural difference between the Asiatic east and the European west, rather than that the difference is between evidence-based medicine and other ...
The history of alternative medicine may refer to the history of a group of diverse medical practices that were collectively promoted as "alternative medicine" beginning in the 1970s, to the collection of individual histories of members of that group, or to the history of western medical practices that were labeled "irregular practices" by the ...
Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy, by Alexander Beideman (1857). Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, is an archaic and derogatory label originally used by 19th-century homeopaths to describe heroic medicine, the precursor of modern evidence-based medicine.