antimedicine

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ medicine.

Adjective

antimedicine (comparative more antimedicine, superlative most antimedicine)

  1. Opposing medicine.
    • 1997, Toba Schwaber Kerson, Social work in health settings: practice in context, page 79:
      Despite this strong antimedicine bias, she did agree to AZT therapy for herself and baby in the face of compelling scientific evidence that rates of maternal-child transmission could be significantly reduced.
    • 2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN‎[1]:
      “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.

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