| Advice offered by practitioners of complementary/ alternative medicine: an important ethical issue. | |
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PMID: 19926607 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The current popularity of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) generates many challenges to medical ethics. The one discussed here is the advice offered by CAM practitioners. Using selected examples, the author tries to demonstrate that some of the advice issued through the popular media or provided by acupuncturists, chiropractors, herbalists, homeopaths, pharmacists, and doctors is misleading or dangerous. This, the author argues, can impinge on the main principle of medical ethics: beneficence, nonmaleficence, and autonomy. We should work toward correcting this deplorable situation. |
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Authors:
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E Ernst |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2009-11-18 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Evaluation & the health professions Volume: 32 ISSN: 1552-3918 ISO Abbreviation: Eval Health Prof Publication Date: 2009 Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2009-11-27 Completed Date: 2010-03-16 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7805992 Medline TA: Eval Health Prof Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 335-42 Citation Subset: H; T |
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University of Exeter, Devon, England. Edzard.Ernst@pms.ac.uk |
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Beneficence Complementary Therapies / ethics* Consumer Health Information / ethics* Deception Humans Marketing of Health Services / ethics Trust |
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