Alternative medicine, especially: acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, herbal medicine and Qigong came into sight in the Western Europe in the 1960s. The beginnings of this modern system of medicine, grounded in the heritage of the traditional non- academic medicine, were not welcomed by the well established orthodox medicine. This study attempts to evaluate the process of the expansion of alternative medicine into the medical world through the examination of article titles in the categories of acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, herbal medicine and Qigong in the period of 1965 - 2000,...
Alternative medicine, especially: acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, herbal medicine and Qigong came into sight in the Western Europe in the 1960s...