Complementary and alternative medicine ethics, the patient, and the physician /

"Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ethics, the Patient, and the Physician is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary book to focus on the ethical challenges of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), examining the ethical considerations and challenges that increasingly face patie...

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Other Authors: Snyder, Lois, 1961-, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, ©2007.
Totowa, N.J. : [2007]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 241 pages).
Series: Biomedical ethics reviews ; 2007.
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Summary: "Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ethics, the Patient, and the Physician is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary book to focus on the ethical challenges of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), examining the ethical considerations and challenges that increasingly face patients, physicians and complementary and alternative medicine practitioners today."--Jacket.
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
A context for thinking about complementary and alternative medicine and ethics / Lois Snyder -- Complementary and alternative medicine: history, definitions, and what is it today? / Richard J. Carroll -- Complementary and alternative medicine: the physician's ethical obligations / Wayne Vaught -- Advising patients about complementary and alternative medicine / Arti Prasad and Mariebeth B. Velásquez -- Patient and medical education on complementary and alternative medicine: sorting it out / Catherine Leffler -- Legal and risk management in complementary and alternative medicine / Michael H. Cohen -- Whose evidence, which methods? Ethical challenges in complementary and alternative medicine research / Jon Tilburt.
"Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Ethics, the Patient, and the Physician is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary book to focus on the ethical challenges of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), examining the ethical considerations and challenges that increasingly face patients, physicians and complementary and alternative medicine practitioners today."--Jacket.
University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 241 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 1588295842
9781588295842
9781597453813
1597453811
Access: University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus.