Editors:
- Examines the ethical challenges that CAM raises for patients and their physicians, and for patient-physician relationships
- Includes valuable patient education resources on CAM
- Discusses legal and risk management issues in CAM
- Presents a forward-looking exploration of current and potential ethical challenges in CAM research
- Written by a multidisciplinary team of CAM ethics and policy analysts, researchers and thought-leaders
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biomedical Ethics Reviews (BER)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Reviews
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)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, Philadelphia
Lois Snyder
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Center for Ethics and Professionalism at the American College of Physicians, Philadelphia
Lois Snyder
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Book Subtitle: Ethics, the Patient, and the Physician
Editors: Lois Snyder
Series Title: Biomedical Ethics Reviews
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-381-3
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Humana Press 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58829-584-2Published: 23 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-658-0Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-59745-381-3Published: 17 November 2007
Series ISSN: 0742-1796
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 242
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Medical Law, Ethics