Alternative Medicine and the Ethics Of Commerce

Bioethics
Chris Macdonald, Scott Gavura

Abstract

Is it ethical to market complementary and alternative medicines? Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are medical products and services outside the mainstream of medical practice. But they are not just medicines (or supposed medicines) offered and provided for the prevention and treatment of illness. They are also products and services - things offered for sale in the marketplace. Most discussion of the ethics of CAM has focused on bioethical issues - issues having to do with therapeutic value, and the relationship between patients and those purveyors of CAM. This article aims instead to consider CAM from the perspective of commercial ethics. That is, we consider the ethics not of prescribing or administering CAM (activities most closely associated with health professionals) but the ethics of selling CAM.

Citations

Sep 7, 2018·Health & Social Care in the Community·Bernie GarrettCathryn Jackson
Jun 14, 2019·Health & Social Care in the Community·Bernie GarrettJoseph Anthony
Aug 5, 2020·Research in Social & Administrative Pharmacy : RSAP·Amber Salman Popattia, Adam La Caze
Mar 25, 2021·AJOB Neuroscience·Ashwini NagappanAnna Wexler
Aug 3, 2021·Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice·Sarah Fogarty, K Jane Chalmers

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