The duty of medical practitioners and CAM/TCM practitioners to inform competent adult patients about alternatives

The book pays interest to a small and almost untouched topic: a health practitioner' s duty to inform about alternatives. It covers both orthodox medicine practitioners and CAM practitioners. The topic is explored in a co mparative way, examining the laws of not only common law jurisdictions, s...

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Main Author: Zhao, Xiju (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg Imprint Springe 2013.
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Summary:The book pays interest to a small and almost untouched topic: a health practitioner' s duty to inform about alternatives. It covers both orthodox medicine practitioners and CAM practitioners. The topic is explored in a co mparative way, examining the laws of not only common law jurisdictions, such as the USA, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, but also two East Asia jurisdictions ( China and Japan ) . It uses the collective wisdom of several common law jurisdictions, but also differentiates them. It places the issue of "disclosure of alternatives" in a clear and wider context, making a cogent distinction between diagnosis/treatment and information disclosure.
Physical Description:1 online resource ( XII, 413 pages 7 illustrations) digital
ISBN:9783642316470