Complementary & alternative medicine : legal boundaries and regulatory perspectives / Michael H. Cohen.
1998
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Author
Title
Complementary & alternative medicine : legal boundaries and regulatory perspectives / Michael H. Cohen.
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Call Number
KF3821 .C64 1998
ISBN
0801856876
0801856892 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801856892 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 180 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37030807
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-175) and index.
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Variant Title
Complementary and alternative medicine
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1
Biomedicine and Holistic Healing
1
The Biomedical Paradigm
2
The Holistic Healing Paradigm
3
Holism and Mechanism
6
The Use of Holistic Therapies
8
Scientific Substantiation and Methodological Issues
10
An Integrated Health Care System
13
2
Biomedical Regulation in Historical Context
15
The Emergence of Licensing
15
The Development of the Biomedical Community
17
The Response of the Regulatory Paradigm
21
3
State Law Regulation of Medicine
24
The Police Power Rationale
24
Legal Definitions of the Practice of Medicine
26
Unauthorized Professional Practice
29
4
Scope-of-Practice Limitations
39
Licensing of Complementary Alternative Providers
39
Legislatively Authorized Boundaries of Practice
46
Scope of Practice: The Case of Chiropractic
47
Addressing Scope-of-Practice Risks
54
5
Malpractice and Vicarious Liability
56
Physicians' Malpractice Liability
56
Malpractice by Complementary and Alternative Providers
64
Malpractice Liability of Health Care Institutions
70
6
Access to Treatments
73
Treatments Requiring New Drug Approval
73
Nutritional Therapies
77
Dietary Supplements and Health Claims
79
Health Care Freedom
81
7
Discipline and Sanction
87
The Disciplinary Process
87
State Medical Freedom Acts
92
8
Third-Party Reimbursement
96
Voluntary and Mandated Coverage
96
Selected Exclusions and Coverage Issues
101
Health Care Fraud and Insurance Fraud
104
9
The Evolution of Legal Authority
109
Professional Licensure and Scope of Practice
109
Malpractice and Professional Discipline
111
Fraud and Health Care Freedom
112
Integral Health Care
114
Conclusion
117
Notes
121
Index
177