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    Edzard Ernst, Kevin Smith.
    Summary: This book reveals the numerous ways in which moral, ethical and legal principles are being violated by those who provide, recommend or sell ‘complementary and alternative medicine’ (CAM). The book analyses both academic literature and internet sources that promote CAM. Additionally the book presents a number of brief scenarios, both hypothetical and real-life, about individuals who use CAM or who fall prey to ethically dubious CAM practitioners. The events and conundrums described in these scenarios could happen to almost anyone. Professor emeritus of complementary medicine Edzard Ernst together with bioethicist Kevin Smith provide a thorough and authoritative ethical analysis of a range of CAM modalities, including acupuncture, chiropractic, herbalism, and homeopathy. This book could and should interest all medical professionals who have contact to complementary medicine and will be an invaluable reference for patients deliberating which course of treatment to adopt.

    Contents:
    Medical ethics
    Competence
    Research
    Education
    Informed Consent
    Truth
    Exploitation
    Conclusions
    Glossary with short explanations of the main alternative therapies.
    Digital Access Springer 2018
  • Article
    Cardella CJ, Sutton DM, Falk JA, Katz A, Uldall PR, de Verber GA.
    Proc Eur Dial Transplant Assoc. 1977;14:328-35.
    Intensive plasma exchange (IPE) was used to treat 13 rejection episodes in eight renal transplant recipients with biopsy evidence of humoral rejection. Prior to IPE, each patients had several rejection episodes treated with high dose steroids. The IPE-treated rejections had not responded to conventional anti-rejection therapy and all patients appeared likely to lose their grafts. IPE reversed 7 of the 13 rejections (5 of 8 patients responded). Two of the 8 grafts continue to have adequate function 6 and 8 months after IPE. IPE temporarily reverses rejection but not increase long term graft survival.
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doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69941-7