Main description:

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:

Table of Contents

Z Preface

Lois Snyder, JD

Z Contributor List and Biographies

Z Chapter

1. A Context for Thinking about Complementary and Alternative Medicine

and Ethics

Lois Snyder, JD

2. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: History, Definitions, and What is it

Today?

Richard J. Carroll, MD, ScM

3. Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Physician's Ethical Obligations

Wayne Vaught, PhD

4. Advising Patients and Communicating about Complementary and Alternative

Medicine

Arti Prasad, MD
Mariebeth Velasquez, BS

5. Patient and Medical Education on Complementary and Alternative Care:

Sorting it Out

Catherine Leffler, JD

6. Legal and Risk Management Issues in Complementary and Alternative

Medicine

Michael Cohen, JD

7. Whose Evidence, Which Methods? Ethical Challenges in Complementary and

Alternative Medicine Research

Jon Tilburt, MD