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Complementary and alternative medicine : ethics, the patient, and the physician / edited by Lois Snyder. - Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2007. - xv, 241 p. ; 24 cm. - Biomedical ethics reviews ; 2007 .

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.

ISBN: 1588295842 (alk. paper) 9781588295842 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006018114

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101278048 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medical ethics.
Physician and patient--Moral and ethical aspects.
Complementary Therapies--ethics.
Physician-Patient Relations--ethics.

LC Class. No.: R724 / .C662 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 174.2

National Library of Medicine Call No.: W1 / BI615 2007 WB 890 / C73666 2007