Alternative Medicine and the Ethics Of Commerce

Is it ethical to market complementary and alternative medicines? Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are medical products and services outside the mainstream of medical practice. But they are not just medicines (or supposed medicines) offered and provided for the prevention and treatment o...

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Autores principales: MacDonald, Chris (Autor) ; Gavura, Scott (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
En: Bioethics
Año: 2016, Volumen: 30, Número: 2, Páginas: 77-84
Clasificaciones IxTheo:NCE Ética económica
NCH Ética de la medicina
Otras palabras clave:B Business Ethics
B Naturopathy
B Markets
B Acupuncture
B Cam
B Homeopathy
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Sumario:Is it ethical to market complementary and alternative medicines? Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are medical products and services outside the mainstream of medical practice. But they are not just medicines (or supposed medicines) offered and provided for the prevention and treatment of illness. They are also products and services - things offered for sale in the marketplace. Most discussion of the ethics of CAM has focused on bioethical issues - issues having to do with therapeutic value, and the relationship between patients and those purveyors of CAM. This article aims instead to consider CAM from the perspective of commercial ethics. That is, we consider the ethics not of prescribing or administering CAM (activities most closely associated with health professionals) but the ethics of selling CAM.
ISSN:1467-8519
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12226