| Description |
ix, 220 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Biomedical ethics reviews, 0742-1796 ; 1998 |
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Biomedical ethics reviews ; 1998
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| Contents |
"Alternative" medicine: more hype than hope / Stephen Barrett -- Understanding the integration of alternative modalities into an emerging healthcare model in the United States / Vimal Patel -- Healthcare plans as gatekeepers: alternative medicine / Grace Powers Monaco and Gilbert Smith -- Insurance coverage for complementary and alternative medicine: access, challenges, and policy / S. Mitchell Weitzman -- Legal and ethical dilemmas surrounding prayer as a method of alternative healing for children / G. Steven Neeley -- Alternative medicine: ethical challenges for the profession of pharmacy / John K. Crellin |
| Summary |
In a time of great public interest in alternative, non-traditional ways of treating disease, biothicists and philosophers examine and debate the question, offering both defence and criticism of how the health-care system should deal with alternative medicine |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Alternative medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Health insurance -- United States.
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Alternative medicine.
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Holistic medicine -- United States.
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Medical ethics.
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Holistic medicine.
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Naturopathy.
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Complementary Therapies.
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Ethics, Medical.
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Holistic Health.
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Insurance, Health.
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| Author |
Almeder, Robert F.
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Humber, James M.
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| ISBN |
0896034402 |
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