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Articles by Topic Area

Below are articles by topic area within Health Law and Policy Relating to Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine. Some topics may overlap (for example, credentialing and hospital policy) though each article is listed only once. For a chronological bibliography of articles and books chapters, click here.

Acupunture and Traditional Oriental Medicine

• Cohen MH. Forward. In: Acupuncture and state oriental medicine laws (Gig Harbor, WA: NAF Publications, 2005);pp.vi-viii.

Bioethics

• Cohen MH. Toward a bioethics of compassion. Ind L Rev 1995;28:667-668.

Cardiology

• Cohen MH. Legal issues in integrative health care. In: Integrative cardiology. McGraw-Hill [Vogel JH & Krucoff MS, editors, New York: McGraw-Hill, in press;2005].

• Cohen MH, Schouten R. Legal perspectives on integrative medicine in cardiology. Sem Integrative Med 2004;2:4:152-158.

Clinical Practice and Research

• Cohen MH, Schacter SC. Facilitating IRB consideration of protocols involving complementary and alternative medical therapies. Clin Researcher 2004;4:3:2-6.

• Dumoff A, Cohen MH. Advising from a distance: the legality of web-based clinical consultations—Part I. Alt. & Comp. Therapies. Aug. 2004;231-34.

• Cohen MH, Dumoff A. Advising from a distance: the legality of web-based clinical consultations—Part II. Alt. & Comp. Therapies. Oct. 2004;289-293.

Credentialing and Licensure

• Cohen MH. Credentialing in integrative medicine. Int Med;2003;2:3:64-65.

• Eisenberg DM, Cohen MH, Hrbek A, Grayzel J, van Rompay MI, Cooper, RA. Credentialing complementary and alternative medical providers. Ann Intern Med; 2002;137:965-973.

Dietary Supplements

• Cohen MH. U.S. dietary supplement regulation: belief systems and legal rules. Hastings W Law J 2000:11:1:3-21.

• Cohen MH. Changing U.S. dietary supplements regulation: belief, values, policies. Alt Healthcare Mgt 1999;2:216-218.

• Dobos GJ, Tan L, Cohen MH, McIntyre M, Bauer R, Li X, Bensoussan, Governmental Regulations for Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in Eastern and Western Countries 2005; in press.

Energy Medicine and Healing

• Cohen MH. Regulating ‘healing:’ notes on the ecology of awareness and the awareness of ecology. St John’s L Rev 2005;78:4:1167-1192.

• Cohen MH. An indigenous Mexican healer: a personal encounter. Alt Healthcare Mgt 1999;2:2:24-26.

• Cohen MH. Examining the legal status of energy healing, Part 1. Alt Healthcare Mgt 1999;1:2:14-17.

• Cohen MH. Examining the legal status of energy healing, Part 2. Alt Healthcare Mgt 1999;2:1:1-3.

• Cohen MH. Expanding legal paradigms to incorporate subtle energies. Sub Energ 1995:6;1;99-104.

Ethics

• Cohen MH. Legal and ethical issues in complementary medicine: a U.S. perspective. Med J Australia 2004;181:3:168-169.

• Ernst EE, Cohen MH, Stone J. Ethical problems arising in evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine. J Med Ethics 2004;30: 156-159.

• Adams KE, Cohen MH, Jonsen AR, Eisenberg DM. Ethical considerations of complementary and alternative medical therapies in conventional medical settings. Ann Intern Med; 2002;137:660-664.

• Ernst EE, Cohen MH. Informed consent in complementary and alternative medicine. Arch Intern Med 2001;161:19:2288-2292.

• Cohen MH. Ethics in integrative care: the healer's boundaries. Alt & Comp Therap 1999;5:4;241-243.

• Cohen MH. Do clones have souls and other medicolegal mysteries. 1999;5:3 Alt. & Comp Therap1999;5:3:177-180.

• Cohen MH. Medicine in “Flatland:” a tale of two dimensions. Alt & Comp Therap 1999;5:2:110-112.

• Cohen MH. Sex, scandal and spirituality. Alt & Comp Therap 1999;6:6:435-437.

• Cohen MH. What is the matrix? A radical look at medico-legal reform. Alt. & Comp Therap. 1999.

Homeopathy

• Cohen MH. Legal ramifications of homeopathy. J Alt & Comp Med 1995;1:4:10-12.

Hospital Policy

• Cohen MH, Hrbek A, Davis R, Schachter S, Kemper KJ, Boyer EW, Eisenberg DM. Emerging credentialing practices, malpractice liability policies, and guidelines governing complementary and alternative medical practices and dietary supplements recommendations: a descriptive study of 19 integrative health care centers in the U.S. Arch Int Med 2005;165:289-295.

• Cohen MH, Sandler L, Hrbek A, Davis RB, Eisenberg DM. Policies Pertaining to Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies in a Random Sample of 39 Academic Health Centers. Alt Ther Health Med. Alt Ther Health Med 2005;11:1:36-40.

• Cohen MH, Ruggie M. Integrating complementary and alternative medical therapies in conventional medical settings: legal quandaries and potential policy models. Cinn L Rev 2004; 72:2:671-729.

• Cohen MH, Ruggie M. Overcoming legal and social obstacles to integrative medicine. Med L Intl 2004:6:339-393.

• Cohen MH. Advising health care institutions integrating complementary & alternative medical providers. Orange County Lawyer. July 2000:16-18.

• Cohen MH. Integrating complementary and alternative therapies: strategic advice for health care institutions. Alt Healthcare Mgt 1999;10:1:1-3.

Insurance

• Cohen MH. Holistic health care: including complementary and alternative medicine in insurance and regulatory schemes. Ariz L Rev 1996;38:83-164.

Legislation and Regulation

• Cohen MH. Of rogues and regulation: a review of Accommodating pluralism: the role of complementary & alternative medicine. Vt L Rev 2003;27:3:801-815.

• Cohen MH. CAM regulation in the United States. Comp Ther in Med 2002:10:1:3-7.

• Cohen MH. The emerging field of law and complementary and alternative medicine. Orange County Lawyer. Feb. 2000:30-32.

• Cohen MH. Complementary medicine: legal status of the nonlicensed provider in the United States. Comp Ther in Nurs & Midwif 1997;4:3:99-102.

• Cohen MH. Legal and regulatory structures governing holistic health care in the new millenium. The Long Term View 1999:4:4:17-24.

• Cohen MH. A fixed star in health care reform: the emerging paradigm of holistic healing. Ariz State L J 1995;27:79-173.

• Cohen MH. Guaranteeing freedom of access to healing: the Access to Medical Treatment Act of 1995. Alt & Comp Therap 1995;1:6:408-410.

Malpractice Liability

• Cohen MH, Eisenberg DM. Potential physician malpractice liability associated with complementary/integrative medical therapies. Ann Intern Med; 2002;136:596-603.

• Cohen MH. The risk of malpractice liability in credentialing complementary & alternative medical providers. Orange County Lawyer. April 2000:16-18.

• Cohen MH. Malpractice considerations affecting the clinical integration of complementary and alternative medicine. Curr Prac of Med 1999;2:4:87-89.

• Cohen MH. Referral to complementary and alternative medicine providers: a physician's liability. Integrative Med Consult 1999:44.

• Cohen MH. Malpractice and vicarious liability for providers of complementary and alternative medicine. Bender's Health Care Monthly (July) 1996;3-12.

Negotiation

• Cohen MH. Negotiating integrative medicine: a framework for provider-patient conversations. Negotiation Journal 2004;30:3;409-433.

NIH and FDA

• Cohen, MH. Complementary and integrative medical therapies, the FDA, and the NIH: definitions and regulation. Derm Ther 2003;16:77-84.

• Cohen MH. Complementary and alternative medicine policy: the future of regulation. Alt & Comp Therap 1999;5:9:50-52.

Nephrology

• Cohen MH. Legal issues in caring for patients with kidney disease by integrating complementary therapies. ACKD Journal 2005; in press.

Oncology

• Cohen MH, Rosenthal D. Legal issues in integrative oncology. In: Integrative oncology: principles and practice. Oxford: Taylor and Francis Publishing [M. Mumber, editor; in press;2005].

Pediatrics

• Cohen MH. Legal and ethical issues relating to use of complementary therapies in pediatric hematology/oncology. J Ped Hematology/Oncology 2005; in press.

• Cohen MH, Kemper KJ, Stevens L, Hashimoto D, Gilmour J, Pediatric use of complementary therapies: ethical and policy choices. Pediatrics. Electronic Pages.2005; in press.

• Cohen M, Kemper K. Complementary therapies in pediatrics: A Legal Perspective. Pediatrics 2005; 115: 774-780.

• Kemper KJ, Cohen MH. Ethics in complementary medicine: new light on old principles. Contemporary Pediatrics 2004;21:3:61-72.

Regulatory Policy

• Cohen MH. The Institute of Medicine Report on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a reflection. Sem Integrative Med 2005; in press.

Scope of Practice/Professional Boundaries

• Cohen MH. Scope of practice limitations on unconventional providers: the case of chiropractic. Alt & Comp Therap 1996;2:2:110-112.

Spirituality and Religion

• Cohen MH. Healing at the borderland of medicine and religion: regulating potential abuse of authority by spiritual healers. 18:2 J Law & Relig 2004;373-426.

• Cohen MH. Regulation, religious experience, and epilepsy: a lens on complementary therapies. Epilepsy Behav 2003;4:6:602-606.

Yoga

• Cohen MH. The ethics and liabilities of touch. Yoga Journal: My Yoga Mentor, Feb. 2, 2005.

• Cohen MH. How integrative medicine may affect yoga teaching and business. Yoga Journal: My Yoga Mentor, March 3, 2005.

• Cohen MH. Insurance and dually trained yoga teachers. Yoga Journal, April 6, 2005.

• Cohen MH. Ethics, adjustments, and cathartic release. Yoga Journal: My Yoga Mentor, May 16, 2005.

•Cohen MH. The yoga teacher's employment contract, Part 1. Yoga Journal: My Yoga Mentor, June 16, 2000.

• Cohen MH. Should yoga studios ask students to sign a liability waiver? Yoga Journal: The Voice of Yoga Online (Nov. 3, 2004).

• Cohen MH. Speaking Mindfully: The legal implications of health advice, part 1. Yoga Journal, Dec. 5, 2004.

• Cohen MH. Speaking Mindfully: The legal implications of health advice, part 2. Yoga Journal, Jan. 6, 2004.

• Cohen MH. Editorial, National teaching standards in yoga. Yoga J. July 2000.

• Cohen MH. Yoga, medicine, and the law, Alt Healthcare Mgt 1999;2:3:16-18.

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