| The First
Guide Book on Patient Rights and Healthcare Provider Liability for Complementary
& Alternative Medicine
“LEGAL ISSUES IN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE: A GUIDE
FOR CLINICIANS, HOSPITALS, AND PATIENTS”. If you have been
considering integrating complementary therapies into your practice, your
healthcare facility, or your own life – this book is for you. Complementary
and Alternative Medicine therapies (or CAM as it is called for short),
such as acupuncture and traditional oriental medicine, chiropractic, naturopathy,
massage therapy, herbal medicine, and mind-body therapies, are growing
in popularity and usage. This trend has raised concern among consumers,
doctors and lawyers about the legal ramifications of seeking, referring
and using CAM therapies. This book provides essential guidance for those
wishing to understand the legal context in which they integrate CAM therapies
into conventional medical practice, refer patients to CAM practitioners,
or use such therapies themselves.
In LEGAL ISSUES IN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
(NAF Publications; January 2005/$29.95) Author Michael H. Cohen, J.D.
devotes individual sections to three main audiences and users of CAM –
Clinicians, Institutions and Patients, addressing legal concerns specific
to each. Michael combines an unusually broad range of experience as a
practicing lawyer, a law school and medical school professor, and an explorer
of healing modalities. His book, LEGAL ISSUES IN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE,
is the first book of its kind and is written in plain, no-nonsense language.
A straightforward, highly practical book, LEGAL
ISSUES IN INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE will help you:
· Understand the legal environment for CAM therapies
· Craft institutional policies governing CAM providers
· Address credentialing, liability, and dietary supplements
· Learn about your legal rights relating to these therapies
Empower yourself to make better decisions concerning the
health care services that you use or recommend, whether you are a healthcare
professional, a healthcare facility administrator, or a patient.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michael H. Cohen combines an unusually
broad range of experience as a practicing lawyer, a law school and medical
school professor, and an explorer of healing modalities. He graduated
from Columbia University (BA), Boalt Hall School of Law at the University
of California, Berkeley (JD), the Haas School of Management at the University
of California, Berkeley (MBA), and the Iowa Writers Workshop (MFA). Michael
became the first attorney to receive a full-time faculty appointment in
Harvard Medical School history, serving as Assistant Professor of Medicine
and Director of Legal Programs at the Harvard Medical School Division
for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
and Harvard Medical School Osher Institute. Michael’s responsibilities
included designing policies for a reproducible model of integrative health
care within the Harvard hospital system, and spearheading negotiation
among international co-investigators of agreement around intellectual
property issues for systematic evaluation of East Asian herbal products.
He also directed a course on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Health
Law & Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Michael has contributed
to important public policy initiatives, including serving as Consultant
to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Committee
on Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by the American Public.
He serves as President of the Institute for Integrative and Energy Medicine,
a nonprofit created to explore frontiers of health law and policy. Michael
gives seminars and policy guidance all over the world about contemporary
legal issues in health care. Michael’s website, www.camlawblog.com,
offers an Internet resource for complementary, alternative, and integrative
medicine law, policy, regulation, and ethics. He lives Cambridge, Massachusetts
with his wife.
Legal Issues in Integrative
Medicine: A Guide for Clinicians, Hospitals, and Patients
Michael H. Cohen, J.D.
January 2005
0-9762537-0-4
$29.95
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