Tài liệu Complementary and Alternative Medicine Ethics, the Patient, and the Physician By Lois Snyder (Editor

Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Ethics, the Patient, and the Physician
By: Lois Snyder (Editor)

Audience: Professional
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 260
Published: 19th November 2010

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.



Contents
ix Preface
xiii Contributors
1 Chapter 1: A Context for Thinking About Complementary
and Alternative Medicine and Ethics
Lois Snyder
7 Chapter 2: Complementary and Alternative Medicine:
History, Definitions, and What Is It Today?
Richard J. Carroll
45 Chapter 3: Complementary and Alternative Medicine:
The Physician’s Ethical Obligations
Wayne Vaught
77 Chapter 4: Advising Patients About Complementary
and Alternative Medicine
Arti Prasad and Mariebeth B. Velásquez
121 Chapter 5: Patient and Medical Education on Complementary
and Alternative Medicine: Sorting It Out
Catherine Leffler
167 Chapter 6: Legal and Risk Management Issues
in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Michael H. Cohen
201 Chapter 7: Whose Evidence, Which Methods? Ethical
Challenges in Complementary and Alternative
Medicine Research
Jon Tilburt
231 Index