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KMID : 0986720010090020007
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Korean Journal of Medicine and Law
2001 Volume.9 No. 2 p.7 ~ p.30
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The Mutual Complementary Development between Western and Oriental Medicine in Korea : A Legal and Institutional Review
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김춘배
박종구/최서영/이해종/조경숙/이선동/소경순/김정덕
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Abstract
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This study is conducted to evaluate the legal and institutional concern on the related issues between Western and Oriental Medicine in Korea.
Oriental medicine has developed differently from the western medicine under its own environment and history. Western medicine was introduced to Korea about 120 years ago. But unfortunately, there still is an indisputable lack of cooperative movement between oriental medicine & western medicine. Though most western medicine practitioners criticize oriental medicine, the level of adopting alternative forms of health care by the public and by some western medicine practitioners will continue to increase. On the other hand, oriental medicine such as acupuncture and herbal remedies was adopted as a "complementary" therapies of mainstream medicine, to calm the symptoms of terminal illness in most industrialized countries (including the United States, England. etc.).
Therefore oriental medicine & western medicine share a mutual responsibility to apply evidence-based practices, to seek scientific empirical proof through planned interventions, and to increase the quality of health care.
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