The growth of complementary medicine over the past decade has been accompanied by calls for greater regulation and for the most part it has been assumed that the regulation of orthodox medicine offers a suitable model for complementary medicine. The result has been confusion over the purpose and effects of regulation and the obscuring of critical issues which deserve far greater public exposure. This book unravels the debates and analyses the benefits and drawbacks of regulation in this area. The book has two aims. First of all it examines in some detail the way in which the law presently affects the practice of complementary medicine. The second aim is to examine all the arguments for and against greater regulation of complementary medicine. In fulfilling the second aim it challenges the notion that the legal and regulatory mechanisms which govern orthodox medicine constitute an appropriate model for the regulation of most complementary therapies. The patient-centred, holistic approach central to the theory and practice of many complementary therapies presents a unique problem for the law: the highly individualized intuitive, whole person approach of complementary medicine is not amenable to the quantification, measurability and certainty required by the law. The authors argue that only by implementing a more dynamic form of ethics-directed regulation can patients be protected and the unique contribution that complementary medicine has to make properly realized.

Complementary Medicine and the Law

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Stone, Julie

Matthews, Joan

Alternative Medicine

Oxford University Press

An Ethical Framework for Complementary and Alternative Therapists

As growing numbers of patients turn to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), the focus of attention has largely been on whether these therapies work and whether they are safe. These questions are central to further integration of CAM with orthodox medicine. But in the absence of formal regulation, it is equally critical to consider the ethical dimensions of the CAM therapeutic encounter. In this book, Julie Stone demonstrates that ethical issues are no less relevant to CAM therapists than they are to doctors or any other group of health professionals. She provides CAM therapists with a detailed framework of the specific ethical issues which affect CAM practice to help practitioners think constructively about how ethics underpin their therapeutic work. An Ethical Framework for Complementary and Alternative Therapists encourages critical and reflective practice, suggests practical problems to common problems, includes illustrative scenarios of ethical dilemmas faced by therapists and summarises key points. This timely book offers a comprehensive guide to this important area. Its challenging conclusions are as relevant to experienced practitioners as to students and newly qualified therapists. This book will also interest policy makers and professional bodies interested in strengthening and enhancing CAM's potential.

Exercise & Fitness

Routledge

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a fascinating and fast-changing area of medicine. This book explores the challenging issues associated with CAM in the context of the social, political and cultural influences that shape people's health. It: <ul>
<li>provides an overview of social change, consumption and debates arising from the increased public interest in CAM, arguing for and against different classifications</li> <li>discusses how CAM developed in a political and historical context, critically assessing the importance of ethics and values to CAM practice and how these inform what practitioners do</li> <li>analyzes the question of what people want, the changing contested nature of health, and the nature of personal and social factors associated with the use of CAM</li> <li>examines the diversity of settings in which CAM takes place </li> <li>explores the social, political and economic milieu in which CAM is provided and used.</li>
</ul> The book is one of three core texts for the forthcoming Open University course K221 Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (first presented in February 2005).

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Structures and Safeguards (Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

Heller, Tom

Lee-Treweek, Geraldine

MacQueen, Hilary

Spurr, Sue

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Structures and Safeguards

Riley Andrews had a perfect life: a beautiful son, a rewarding career, and a husband who loved staying home-until one day when he didn't want to anymore. Riley quickly transforms from working-woman to stay-at-home single mom. Before long, she realizes a successful new life is through joining the PTA. Fighting off parental miscues, her soon-to-be ex-husband, and the Association's hierarchy, Riley realizes she's in over her head. As hard as it is to admit, she needs help. Enter Sam Aldin. A widower and the only dad in the PTA, he knows what it feels like to be an outsider. Riley and Sam bond instantly as they realize the women of the Hubbard School PTA are not exactly thrilled by newcomers. Their power-play decision to chair the annual fundraiser might turn the whole organization upside down, and just might make Riley see beyond her way of doing things. One thing's certain, for a woman like Riley to survive the PTA, it sure doesn't hurt to have a man like Sam in her corner.

Try, Try Again

Literature & Fiction

United States

Montlake Romance

Swingin' single gal Alex Sanders has everything she's always wanted--terrific friends, a loyal dog, and her own business, a card and invitation shop called Correspondence, located in the trendy Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. 
 But as her thirtieth birthday draws near, the life Alex loves threatens to unravel. Faced with the possibility of losing her shop, Alex is forced to take drastic measures, including crashing a bridal fair, making nice with her socialite mother, and faking a romance with Peter Gibson, a handsome doctor. 
 As the plot to save Correspondence draws them together, Peter and Alex find they have more in common than just their romantic charade. For Alex, who has never believed in love, the prospect of finding it is enough to send her running--if only she could run in heels.

These Darn Heels

Romance

Caroline Summers is prepared for her life to drastically change when she goes home to take care of her father. But she isn't quite ready to step directly into her past. All anyone wants to talk about is who she used to be--captain of the cheerleading squad, homecoming queen, etc. But all Caroline wants to do is prove she's more than just the pretty, popular girl she was back then. Which is easier said than done when she accepts a job at her old high school, the site of her past glories. As if all of that wasn't enough, Caroline tries to keep her mischievous father from having another heart attack--and the playoff-bound Chicago Cubs aren't making that task easy. But, with help from the only new thing in town, Paul Winters, Caroline might just find something to like in the girl she used to be.

Deja Who?

Contemporary

Déjà Who?

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