Research Catalog

Title

Complementary & alternative medicine : legal boundaries and regulatory perspectives / Michael H. Cohen.

Author

Cohen, Michael H.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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Description

xiv, 180 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Complementary and alternative medicine

Subject

• Alternative medicine > Law and legislation > United States
• Complementary Therapies
• Complementary Therapies
• Insurance, Health
• Liability, Legal
• Licensure, Medical
• Malpractice
• United States

Genre/Form

• Legislation
• Legislation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-175) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Biomedicine and Holistic Healing -- Biomedical Paradigm -- Holistic Healing Paradigm -- Holism and Mechanism -- Use of Holistic Therapies -- Scientific Substantiation and Methodological Issues -- Integrated Health Care System -- 2. Biomedical Regulation in Historical Context -- Emergence of Licensing -- Development of the Biomedical Community -- Response of the Regulatory Paradigm -- 3. State Law Regulation of Medicine -- Police Power Rationale -- Legal Definitions of the Practice of Medicine -- Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention, and Cure -- Holding Oneself Out to the Public -- Intending to Receive a Fee, Gift, or Other Compensation -- Attaching a Title to One's Name -- Maintaining an Office -- Performing Surgery -- Using, Administering, or Prescribing Drugs -- Miscellaneous Definitional Provisions -- Unauthorized Professional Practice -- Nonlicensed Provider -- Independent Holistic Practice -- Occupational Licensure -- 4. Scope-of-Practice Limitations -- Licensing of Complementary and Alternative Providers -- Chiropractic -- Massage Therapy -- Naturopathy -- Homeopathy -- Acupuncture -- Lay Practice -- Legislatively Authorized Boundaries of Practice -- Scope of Practice: The Case of Chiropractic -- Nutritional Care -- Colonic Irrigation -- Acupuncture and Other Modalities -- Physical Examination and Other Procedures -- Addressing Scope-of-Practice Risks -- 5. Malpractice and Vicarious Liability -- Physicians' Malpractice Liability -- Case of Chelation Therapy -- Informed Consent -- Assumption of Risk -- Malpractice by Complementary and Alternative Providers -- Professional Standards of Care -- Heightened Standard of Care -- Duty to Refer and Misrepresentation -- Malpractice Liability of Health Care Institutions -- 6. Access to Treatments -- Treatments Requiring New Drug Approval -- Nutritional Therapies -- Dietary Supplements and Health Claims -- Health Care Freedom -- 7. Discipline and Sanction -- Disciplinary Process -- Homeopathy -- Chelation Therapy -- Ozone Therapy -- State Medical Freedom Acts -- 8. Third-Party Reimbursement -- Voluntary and Mandated Coverage -- Selected Exclusions and Coverage Issues -- Experimental Treatments -- Medically Necessary Treatments -- Health Care Fraud and Insurance Fraud -- 9. Evolution of Legal Authority -- Professional Licensure and Scope of Practice -- Malpractice and Professional Discipline -- Fraud and Health Care Freedom -- Integral Health Care.

ISBN

• 0801856876 (alk. paper)
• 0801856892 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97021874^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library