• In the context of this reform of the German university it is meaningful to speak of "alternative" medicine
• However, "unorthodox" practices, when they appear, are not alternative to an existing standard system; rather, they are competing candidates to make medicine "scientific."
• Three phases of increasing contestation
  • Pre 1790
  • 1790-1820
  • Post 1820

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