The clinical evaluation of traditional East Asian systems of medicine

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 2002 China (People's Republic of) English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Clinical Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, volume 3, pages 16-19 (issn: 1461-1449,

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Authors: Lao, L; Birch, S; Hammerschlag, R; Sherman, K; Macpherson, H; Zaslawski, C;

doi: 10.1054/caom.2001.0117

handle: 10722/188542

The clinical evaluation of traditional East Asian systems of medicine

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In this paper, the term ‘system of medicine’ servesas a conceptual framework for a range of treatmentmodalities that share a similar or related theoreticalorientation. For example both traditional Chinesemedicine and Western biomedicine can be seen assystems in this context. Some commentators on thepractice of Chinese medicine have criticized the ten-dency to label traditional Chinese medicine as a‘system’.

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