Administrative and legal problems of non-conventional medicine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of administrative and legal problems of non-conventional medicine. Despite the existing positions regarding the denial of alternative forms of human treatment as a medical activity, most authors do not see problems in the legal understanding of non-conventional medicine as a type of medical activity. Separate problematic issues related to the terminology used are revealed: traditional medicine, traditional medicine, alternative medicine, complementary medicine, complementary medicine, holistic medicine, ethnomedicine, non-conventional medicine. Attention is drawn to the legal problems of the application of federal legislation arising from the uncertainty of terminology.