Future Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation

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Index 351 Abraham and Sarah (biblical), 203, 277–78 Access to therapies, 6, 38, 41, 45, 81, 85, 88, 157, 309, 325n. 61 Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine Commission, 73 Acupuncture and traditional oriental medicine, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8–9, 13–14, 17, 21, 31, 36, 38, 44, 47, 50, 52, 55, 68, 70–74, 95, 107, 110, 121, 129, 133, 147, 150, 155, 159, 170, 175, 185, 245, 278, 285, 292, 307, 310, 333n. 15; practice by physicians, 33; referral for, 28, 59–64 Ahimsa (nonviolence), 77 Alzheimer’s disease, 30 American Academy of Pediatrics, 260. See also Pediatric care American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, 73 American Board of Internal Medicine , 343n. 32 American Chiropractic Association, 73; Ethics Committee, 181 American College of Physicians, 34, 181, 261 American Holistic Nurses Association , 75, 188 American Medical Association, 4, 44, 75, 78–79, 143 Angels, 117, 128–29, 144, 203, 206, 232, 235, 246, 279; at birth, 267; at death, 264–65, 272, 331n. 77 Animals (veterinary medicine), 148, 252, 289; animal consciousness, 281–92, 302 Archangel Gabriel, 192, 201 Archangel Michael, 202 Aromatherapy, 15, 132, 156 Art, 90, 94, 107, 245, 263; art of medicine , 162; art therapy, 154 Assagioli, Roberto, 99, 236–37, 244, 331n. 71 Assumption of risk, 62, 107 Aura, 17, 167, 182–83, 208–10, 279, 308; and defenses, 222, 233. See also Biofield; Human energy field Autonomy, 5, 6, 12, 28, 30–31, 34, 36, 37–38, 55, 88, 91, 102, 106, 108–9, 111, 114, 182, 198, 254, 283, 286; and paternalism, 39–45 Avogadro’s number, 207 Ayurveda, 2, 9, 50, 56, 107, 307 Baal Shem Tov, 113 Battery, 30, 171, 182 Bedel, Berkeley, 67 Being, 22, 24, 29, 112; Beings, 279; being with God, 267; healing the shame of being, 293–99; mastery of, 314; state(s) of being, 157, 185, 288; wave of being, 269 Beneficence, 21, 36, 37, 69, 254 Bernadette Soubirous, 143 Beyond Complementary Medicine, 12 Bhagavad-Gita, 274–75, 339n. 36 Bioethics, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 38, 39, 55; in death and dying, 251–76; in Bioethics (continued) reproductive technologies, 277–303. See also Ethical codes; Ethics of care Biofeedback, 114 Biofield, 18, 56, 124, 130, 134–35, 173, 182, 197, 261; at death, 268–71; general discussion of, 137–65. See also Aura; Chakras; Human energy field Bird, Chief Justice Rose, 88 Bliss, 113–14, 123 Bly, Robert, 219–21, 223, 228 Boddhistava’s prayer, 203 Bohm, David, 136, 195 Book of Revelations, 223 Book of the Dead (Tibetan). See Tibetan medicine Boundaries, 17, 18, 165, 285; general discussion of, 167–211; and implanted brain chips, 288. See also Psychology; Psychotherapy Brennan, Barbara, 135, 138, 148–50, 188, 191, 197; observations on dying, 271–73; on relational cords, 300–302 Brody, Howard, 218–21, 226, 244–45, 342–43n. 9, 343n. 32 Bruyere, Roslyn, 149–50, 164, 335n. 57, 336n. 61 Buddha, 53, 116, 201–2, 279, 305, 315, 330n. 58 Buddhism, 97, 114, 202, 259–61, 279 California, 32 California Supreme Court, 88 Callahan, Daniel, 263 Campbell, Joseph, 217 Canadian Psychological Association, 332n. 1 Casuistry, 38 Chakras: descriptions of, 137–65, 339n. 36; in the dying process, 261, 263, 268–71; in reproductive technologies , 284–303; and touch and privacy, 167–211 Chantilly Report, 78, 134, 151 Chemotherapy, 8, 37, 40, 42, 47, 52, 59, 60, 71, 95, 128, 268 Chi, 12, 55–56, 133–34, 143, 148, 159, 200–201, 226, 295; and sexuality, 170, 175, 177–78 Chigong, 89. See also Qigong Childhood and children, 143–44, 191, 193, 260, 277–80, 285–88, 298, 300, 302, 311 China, 38, 134, 175. See also Acupuncture and traditional oriental medicine ; Herbal medicine Chiropractic and chiropractors, 1, 2, 5, 13, 17, 38, 47, 48, 52, 64, 68–69, 73, 86 110, 150, 159, 181, 230, 241, 245, 310; and clinical team, 8; licensure of, 3, 70; referral for, 28; in Wilk case, 4 Christianity and Catholicism, 83, 113, 117, 137, 143, 213, 223–24, 276, 279, 296, 315–16 Christian Science, 333n. 15 Claims, 17, 86–87, 93, 101, 152 Cloning, 256, 287 Colonics, 23, 29, 30, 33, 55, 62, 67 Colorado, 72 Columbus, 144 Compassion, 90, 141, 273, 279, 300, 305 Complementary and Alternative Medicine : Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives, 11 Confidentiality, 17, 18, 30, 73, 287; and intuition and touch, 167–211 Confucius, 279 Congress, U.S., 2, 28, 85, 285 Consciousness, 8, 15, 21, 22, 56, 57, 75, 82, 92, 113–16...