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Preferred term
conventional medicine
Definition
- Conventional medicine is the name used to describe modern, scientifically grounded medicine. Other names used to describe conventional medicine are allopathic medicine, biomedicine, mainstream medicine, orthodox medicine, regular medicine, scientific medicine, the Hippocratic tradition, or Western medicine. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Conventional Medicine]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/conventional_medicine
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