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eCAM Advance Access published online on June 8, 2009
eCAM, doi:10.1093/ecam/nep048
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Looking for a Person-centered Medicine: Non Conventional Medicine in the Conventional European and Italian Setting

Paolo Roberti di Sarsina1 and Ilaria Iseppato2

1Italian High Council of Health, Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy and 2Department of Sociology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

In Italy, the use of non conventional medicines (NCMs) is spreading among people as in the rest of Europe. Sales of alternative remedies are growing, and likewise the number of medical doctors (MDs) who practise NCM/complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). However, in Italy as in other countries of the European Union, at the present time the juridical/legal status of NCM/CAM is not well established, mainly due to the lack of any national law regulating NCM/CAM professional training, practice and public supply and the absence of government-promoted scientific research in this field. This is an obstacle to safeguarding the patient's interests and freedom of choice, especially now that dissatisfaction with biomedicine is inclining more and more people to look for a holistic and patient-centered form of medicine.

Keywords: Non conventional medicines (NCMs) – complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) – person-centred medicine – NCM/CAM legal status

For reprints and all correspondence: Paolo Roberti di Sarsina, MD, Italian High Council of Health, Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy. Tel: +39-3358029638; E-mail: p.roberti{at}fastwebnet.it

Received December 1, 2008; accepted April 9, 2009


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