Schulmedizin versus Alternativmedizin. Was steckt eigentlich dahinter? Ein medizin-gesellschaftspolitisches Plädoyer.

Which philosophical, economic, socio-political, therapeutic and medical-theoretical questions are behind a new word creation and why is it important, also for physicians working aesthetically in our pandemic times today? are questions that will be answered in the next 8 parts in total. This series, which aims to look beyond aesthetics, was written by Volker Schrader, who played an intensive and leading role in the development of the philosophy of Extended Medicine. The first part deals with socio-political questions of medicine, which can be well illuminated by the confrontation between „scholastic medicine“ and „alternative medicine“. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]