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 practitionerỚ" 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,...

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Main Author: Zhao, Xiju. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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Summary:The book pays interest to a small and almost untouched topic: a health practitionerỚ" 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 ỚSdisclosure of alternativesỚ<U+00fd> in a clear and wider context, making a cogent distinction between diagnosis/treatment and information disclosure.
Physical Description:XII, 416 p. online resource.
ISBN:9783642316470