@ARTICLE{TBA, 

TITLE={[FORTHCOMING] Use of non-drug therapies in Malaysia: Pluralism versus integration of traditional and complementary medicines}, 
  
AUTHOR={Brigitte Sébastia, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Technology and Innovation}, 
	
VOLUME={}, 

NUMBER={Forthcoming papers}, 
	
YEAR={2025}, 

URL={https://openscience.fr/Use-of-non-drug-therapies-in-Malaysia-Pluralism-versus-integration-of}, 
	
DOI={TBA}, 
	
ISSN={2399-8571}, 
	
ABSTRACT={Malaysia has a wide variety of traditional medicines stemming from its rich ethnic heritage, which have gradually been joined by more or less globalized complementary medicines. The practice of these medicines, which largely consist of manual therapies, is important to investigate their function as substitutes for drug interventions. This article addresses this issue by showing that the therapeutic model proposed by the Malaysian Holistic and Herbal Organization is based on a subtle combination of non-drug practices from T&C medicine, taking into account the various aspects of the disease and the patient, and promoting demedicalization. Conversely, the integrative model developed by the government, which is too reductive in its form, can only partially compensate for the strong medicalization inherent in biomedicine.}}