Ethical dimensions in the borderland between conventional and complementary/alternative medicine

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 907-915

  Thorne, Sally ^a   Best, Allan ^b   Balon, Jeffrey ^c   Kelner, Merrijoy ^d   Rickhi, Badri ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Res Centre for Alternative Medicine   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0036974291     PISSN: 10755535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/10755530260511900     Document Type: Article

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