Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Focuses on the ethical challenges of complementary and alternative medicine. This title examines the ethical challenges that CAM raises for patients and their physicians, and for patient-physician relationships.

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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.