Rompre avec le discours ésotérique dans notre champ professionnel: un impératif éthique.

The controversies about acupuncture are linked to the illusion of a fundamental alterity between Chinese medicine and Western medicine. This is a cognitive bias that tends to perceive the other as a whole whose actions and thoughts come under a different logic. Chinese medicine is thus essentialized in an antithesis of Western medicine, whose substratum could only be an another value than that of science. What is in question is therefore the ethics of our professional framework, the framework of medicine. The construction of an alterity is reinforced by the human sciences (anthropology, sociology, sinology ...) for whom Chinese medicine is primarily a cultural object to study and not medical practices to implement and discuss critically as to their relevance. Alterity allows esotericism to take root in our disciplinary field whether in its radical form (Guenon's acupuncture), or in its diluted form (New Age acupuncture). The challenge for us, medical doctors is ethical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]