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Title:	Draft report of IBC on traditional medicine and its ethical implications
Imprint:	28 Aug. 2012
Publ Year:	2012
Collation:	19 p.
Original Language:	English
Other Lang. versions:	French
Other lang. title:	Projet de rapport du Comité international de bioéthique de l'UNESCO (CIB) sur la médecine traditionnelle et ses implications éthiques
Document code:	SHS/EGC/IBC-19/12/3
Main descriptors:	traditional medicine; ethics; systems of medicine
On line:	Yes Eng Fre
Document Type:	UNESCO document
Catalog Number:	217457
Source code:	ss

 N1355_2012_Draft-Report-of-IBC-on-Traditional-Medicine-and-its-Ethical-Implications.pdf

DRAFT REPORT OF IBC ON TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AND ITS ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS

1 INTRODUCTION
2 DIFFUSION, ECONOMIC IMPACT, PATTERNS OF REGULATION
2.1 Traditional Knowledge
2.2 Economic Impact
2.3 Patterns of Regulation
3 TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN PRACTICE
3.1 Arab region
3.2 Africa
3.3 Asia and the Pacific
3.4 Latin America and the Caribbean
3.5 Europe and North America
4 ETHICAL AND POLITICAL CHALLENGES
4.1 Potential benefits and advantages
4.2 Crucial issues to be addressed
4.2.1 Safety
4.2.2 Assessment of efficacy and quality
4.2.3 Non-discrimination
4.2.4 Biopiracy
5 COURSES OF ACTION
5.1 Traditional medicine as medicine
5.2 Integration through regulation
5.3 Benchmarks for education and training
5.4 Tradition as a choice and not as a destiny
5.5 Protection from exploitation
5.6 A pluralistic concept of health
6 CONCLUSIONS