The Duty of Medical Practitioners and CAM/TCM Practitioners to Inform Competent Adult Patients about Alternatives

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-8

3. Information Disclosure: A Distinctive Profile

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   Pages 9-42

4. Disclosure of Alternatives: In a Wide Context

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   Pages 43-80

5. Filters and Circumstances

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   Pages 81-108

6. Categorisation of Alternatives

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   Pages 109-125

7. Emerging Treatment Options

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   Pages 127-149

8. Financially Unavailable Treatment Options

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   Pages 151-167

9. CAM and Alternatives

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   Pages 169-211

10. New Zealand Context and Beyond

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    Pages 213-283

11. Chinese Context

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    Pages 285-375

12. Conclusion

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    Pages 377-389

13. Back Matter

    Pages 391-413

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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. ​

• Alternatives
• Chinese Law
• Common Law
• Health Practitioners
• Information Disclosure

• College of Social Science and Humanities, SDUTCM, Jinan, China, People's Republic

  Xiju Zhao

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