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COMMENTARY. How does healing work - that’s the real question A commentary on: Alternative, Complementary or Orthodox: What is real medicine?

Joachim Sturmberg, Carmel Martin

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v4i3.1189

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