Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ethics, the Patient, and the Physician (Biomedical Ethics Reviews): 2007 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1588295842 ISBN 13: 9781588295842

Publisher: Humana Press, 2007

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary book to focus on the ethical challenges of complementary and alternative medicine. It examines the ethical challenges that CAM raises for patients and their physicians, and for patient-physician relationships. The book is written by a multidisciplinary team of CAM ethics and policy analysts, researchers and thought-leaders who present a forward-looking exploration of their subject.

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Review:

From the reviews:

"...I recommend the book for annyone interested in having a broader view of disease, health and healing, and holilstic medicine." -Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)

"Anyone (eg, clinicians, clinical ethicists, attorneys, researchers, and patients) wtih an interest in the ethical aspects of CAM will find this book informative." -Mayo Clinic Proceedings

"This book sets out to review the CAM scene and what it means for policymakers, physicians and for patients. It is about the clinical ethics surrounding the use of CAM ... there is, however, a very useful listing of CAM information resources for patients and health care professionals. The contributors are a mix of doctors and lawyers. ... provides a very good overview of CAM and offers a lot of sound advice about overcoming the traditional hiatus between ‘orthodox’ and ‘non-orthodox’ medicine." (Roger Woodruff, International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, October, 2007)

Synopsis:

"Complementary and Alternative Medicine" examines the real-life implications of patient issues and the healthcare system in which care is delivered. Because complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are not presently considered to be a part of conventional medicine, this book discusses the effect that CAM has on patients, physicians, healthcare, and policymakers. Also included are the implications that CAM has on traditional patient-physician relationships as well as the physician's ethical obligations on this subject.

About this edition

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1588295842
• ISBN 13: 9781588295842
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Snyder Lois