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Parent topics
- Allopathy [r]: An essentially discredited medical theory of the 19th century and earlier, which focused on using drugs, sometimes in high doses, that produced the opposite to an undesired symptom; they were not targeted on etiology [e]
- Homeopathy [r]: System of alternative medicine involving administration of highly diluted substances with the intention to stimulate the body's natural healing processes, not considered proven by mainstream science. [e]
- Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine [e]
- Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]
- Vitalism [r]: The doctrine that the functioning of a living organism does not result from physical and chemical forces alone. [e]
Subtopics
- Some of these are really placeholders, such as the CAM classes
- Alternative medicine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Complementary medicine [r]: A class of bealing art techniques, with varying degrees of acceptance or nonacceptance by conventional medicine, whose practitioners are willing to collaborate with medical or other complementary healer in the interest of the whole patient [e]
- Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine [e]
- Energy medicine (CAM) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Biologically based CAM [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Manipulation and bodywork (CAM) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mind-body medicine (CAM) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cytokines [r]: The chemical messengers of the immune system, primarily but not exclusively carried in blood [e]
- Evidence-based medicine [r]: The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. [e]
- Spirituality [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Informed consent [r]: Agreement, by the person affected or his surrogate, to make a knowledgeable decision consenting to participation in a medical treatment or research trial [e]
- Gate control theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Medical ethics [r]: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. [e]
- Hormone [r]: A chemical director of biological activity that travels through some portion of the body as a messenger. [e]
- Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. [e]
- Agonist [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antagonist [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Receptor (biology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ligand (biology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Antigen (biology) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pharmacologic dose [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Homeostasis (biology [r]: Add brief definition or description