PBIO-539 Bioethics of Clinical Practice and Research in Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Giordano, James

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly used both in concert with mainstream approaches, and as a ‘stand-alone’ intervention. Although assuming a progressive position in the current hierarchy of medical practices, CAM disciplines remain somewhat fractionated in philosophy, practice ideologies, ethos and ethics. This gives rise to questions of what treatments should be used, how should they be used, and in whom should they be used? Basic ethical approaches will be presented that allow the student to understand how these perspectives could contribute to the right and good conduct of patient care and research. Evidence-based research models will be presented and evaluated in light of their relative appropriateness to CAM outcomes and mechanisms. The ethical obligations to conduct effective research will be discussed with particular emphasis upon how such research fulfills epistemologic, humanitarian and social dimensions of medicine.

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: None

PBIO-539-01 Bioethics of Clinical Practice and Research in Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Giordano, James

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly used both in concert with mainstream approaches, and as a ‘stand-alone’ intervention. Although assuming a progressive position in the current hierarchy of medical practices, CAM disciplines remain somewhat fractionated in philosophy, practice ideologies, ethos and ethics. This gives rise to questions of what treatments should be used, how should they be used, and in whom should they be used? Basic ethical approaches will be presented that allow the student to understand how these perspectives could contribute to the right and good conduct of patient care and research. Evidence-based research models will be presented and evaluated in light of their relative appropriateness to CAM outcomes and mechanisms. The ethical obligations to conduct effective research will be discussed with particular emphasis upon how such research fulfills epistemologic, humanitarian and social dimensions of medicine.

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: None

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