This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°220 dated January/March 2025.
Unconventional healthcare practices, non-drug interventions, complementary therapies... There's no shortage of terms to define these techniques. According to the World Health Organization, there are over four hundred of them, from the most outlandish to the most serious! Their common denominator: future doctors don't learn them during their studies. This doesn't prevent a certain enthusiasm for these alternative medicines.
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