Book Title:

Legal Issues in Alternative Medicine: A Guide for Clinicians, Hospitals, and Patients (Paperback)
by Michael H. Cohen

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Book Description

Legal Issues in Alternative Medicine will help you understand the legal environment for CAM therapies, help craft institutional policies governing CAM providers, address credentialing, liability, and dietary supplements, and learn about your legal rights relating to these therapies. Buy a copy for yourself and an extra copy for your attorney, and hopefully save thousands of dollars, by educating your attorney about this specialty area of law.

About the Author

Michael H. Cohen is Director of Legal Programs at the Harvard Medical School Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies. He is a Lecturer on Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, has been a Fortieth Anniversary Scholar at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, and has taught “Health Law & Policy: Complementary and Alternative Medicine” at the Harvard School of Public Health. He received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, his M.B.A. from the Haas School of Management, University of California, Berkeley, his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa, and his B.A. from Columbia University. He served as a law clerk to Judge Thomas P. Griesa in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell, a Wall Street law firm, and as law professor, taught health care law. He is a member of the Bar in the states of California, New York, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and of several books, including: Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998); Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care and Human Evolution (University of Michigan Press, 2000); and Future Medicine: Ethical Challenges, Regulatory Dilemmas, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health and Healing in Human Transformation (University of Michigan Press, 2003).