Complementary and alternative medicine: The challenges of ethical justification: A philosophical analysis and evaluation of ethical reasons for the offer, use and promotion of complementary and alternative medicine

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 329-345

  Mertz, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alternative health care; Applied ethics; CAM; Complementary and alternative medicine; Ethical justification of complementary and alternative medicine; Medical ethics

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BENEFICENCE; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATERNALISM; PATIENT RIGHT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BENEFICENCE; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; ETHICAL RELATIVISM; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PATERNALISM; PATIENT RIGHTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 34548359010     PISSN: 13867423     EISSN: 15728633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-007-9050-x     Document Type: Article

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