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This vital book on an underexplored topic offers a systematic analysis of a common issue faced by medical practitioners - disclosing alternative options. It covers orthodox and CAM medicine, and provides comparative material on differing jurisdictions.

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The book pays interest to a small and almost untouched topic: a health practitioner´ s duty to inform about alternatives. It covers both orthodox medicine practitioners and CAM practitioners. The topic is explored in a co mparative way, examining the laws of not only common law jurisdictions, such as the USA, England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, but also two East Asia jurisdictions ( China and Japan ) . It uses the collective wisdom of several common law jurisdictions, but also differentiates them. It places the issue of "disclosure of alternatives" in a clear and wider context, making a cogent distinction between diagnosis/treatment and information disclosure. _

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