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  2. Alternate care site - Wikipedia

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    An alternate care site(ACS) is a medical treatment facility established in a non-traditional setting during a public-healthcrisis (or other event causing strain on local medical resources) as a means of providing additional capacity to deliver medical care within a given area. [1][2]: 1 The term encompasses both civilian-operated medical ...

  3. Alternate history - Wikipedia

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    A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternate history of the 1920s, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.. Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.

  4. Alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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    Definitions and terminology See also: Terminology of alternative medicine Marcia Angell: "There cannot be two kinds of medicine – conventional and alternative." The terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, integrative medicine, holistic medicine, natural medicine, unorthodox medicine, fringe medicine, unconventional medicine, and new age medicine are used interchangeably as having ...

  5. List of forms of alternative medicine - Wikipedia

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    Acupressure; Acupuncture; Alkaline diet; Anthroposophic medicine; Apitherapy; Applied kinesiology; Aromatherapy; Association for Research and Enlightenment

  6. Wellness (alternative medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Wellness is a state beyond absence of illness but rather aims to optimize well-being.. The notions behind the term share the same roots as the alternative medicine movement, in 19th-century movements in the US and Europe that sought to optimize health and to consider the whole person, like New Thought, Christian Science, and Lebensreform.

  7. Health care in France - Wikipedia

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    The French health care system is one of universal health care largely financed by government national health insurance. In its 2000 assessment of world health care systems, the World Health Organization found that France provided the "best overall health care" in the world. [1] In 2017, France spent 11.3% of GDP on health care, or US$5,370 per ...

  8. French language - Wikipedia

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    e. French ( français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française, French: [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul.

  9. Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes - Wikipedia

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    Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes (French:; 1759–1845) was a French merchant-trader, ambassador and scholar, born in Paris.He was the son of French academician and sinologue, Joseph de Guignes.