TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Advice Offered by Practitioners of Complementary/ Alternative Medicine
JO  - Evaluation and the health professions
A1  - Ernst, E.
SP  - 335
EP  - 342
VL  - 32
IS  - 4
N2  - The current popularity of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) generates many challenges to medical ethics. The one discussed here is the advice offered by CAM practitioners. Using selected examples, the author tries to demonstrate that some of the advice issued through the popular media or provided by acupuncturists, chiropractors, herbalists, homeopaths, pharmacists, and doctors is misleading or dangerous. This, the author argues, can impinge on the main principle of medical ethics: beneficence, nonmaleficence, and autonomy. We should work toward correcting this deplorable situation.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 0163-2787
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163278709346812
ID  - ref1
ER  -