The place of acupuncture in the medical research from 1965 to 2000
Journal Title: Complementary & Alternative Medicine in Science - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Background. Acupuncture has been progressively winning its place within European communities in the last decades of the XX century. This study endeavours to weigh up the process of acupuncture permeation into the medical world. The task is being carried out with the employment of multi-level linguistic analysis of the Internet PubMed Central Home titles of the articles on the subject of acupuncture in the period of 1965 - 2000. Material and method. The selected article titles on acupuncture were compared to the British National Corpus (BNC) written sample, with the employment of the Wmatrix software. The data was analysed for the over– or under-use of keywords and semantic fields, which were chosen with the use of Wmatrix software, as most frequent for the orthodox medicine article titles. Results. Acupuncture has attracted an interest of medical sciences at the end of the XX century. Conclusions. The use of Wmatrix software tool in the analysis of the article titles is an effective way for monitoring the trends and processe s in the world of science.
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Henryk Dyczek
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