Abstract
Traditional medicine (TM) as well as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practices have been used more frequently; since modern medicine has gravitated toward a dehumanistic situation due to the extensive workload of healthcare professionals and thus lack of time given to each patient and mistrust of patients due to some side effects of latest treatment options, in addition to TM and CAM practices having been more affordable, accessible, most often noninvasive, and seen as a hope during terminal periods of some diseases. In order to ensure TM and CAM complying with the standards as other healthcare services, it is necessary to address and evaluate scientific and ethical issues for these clinical researches as well. On the other hand, so far, the ethical side of TM and CAM has not been discussed in detail. Issues such as misleading information, informed consent, publications, patient-physician relationship, and confidentiality should be discussed within the framework of ethics. Ethical issues on CAM and TM research can be sorted as patient’s autonomy and consent, principle of justice, patient-physician relationship, use of public resources, and health insurances. This chapter aims at evaluating CAM and TM research according to fundamental ethics principles, as well as discussing legislations on CAM and TM research in Turkey.
Highlights
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Traditional medicine (TM) consists of knowledge, skills, and practices used for protection from physical and mental illnesses, diagnosis, improvement, and treatment of these diseases, as well as maintaining the health well, which is based on theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) field necessitates evidence-based results on clinical research. Due to their approaches of preventing illnesses and providing treatment that have been preferred by many individuals, TM and CAM practices and research are expected to progress
Clinical research is essential in ensuring medical advances, and it establishes the bond between theory and practice in the field of medicine
Summary
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), TM consists of knowledge, skills, and practices used for protection from physical and mental illnesses, diagnosis, improvement, and treatment of these diseases, as well as maintaining the health well, which is based on theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures, whether explicable or not. As a result of the evaluations done based on the definition of WHO, it has been. People resort more to TM and CAM applications because these applications have low cost, are easy to access, are often free of invasive procedures, are considered promising in some chronic and terminal stage diseases, and some side effects of new treatment options can cause distrust. Friends talk about the solution to certain problems and articles about TM and CAM are frequently seen in the printed media. Many hospitals include these treatment methods in their care plans. CAM has an effect, there are many unknown points about these treatments regarding scientific research that will convincingly reveal the value of individual treatments
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