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eCAM 2005 2(2):233-235; doi:10.1093/ecam/neh098
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Meeting Report

43rd National Congress of the Italian Psychiatric Association—Consensus Conference: ‘Non-Conventional Medicines’

October 19–24, 2003, Palazzo della Cultura e dei Congressi, Bologna, Italy

Paolo Roberti, MD

Department of Mental Health, Health Local Unit Bologna, Italy

For reprints and all correspondence: Paolo Roberti, Via Siepelunga 36/12, 40141 Bologna, Italy. Tel: +39-3358029638; E-mail: p.roberti@fastwebnet.it

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   Foreword
 
The Italian Republic protects health as a fundamental right of the individual, safeguards the principle of scientific pluralism and ensures the freedom of choice of treatments by individuals and the professional qualification of health operators, with special focus on the independence of doctors as regards the choice of treatments (Supreme Court, 4th Section, Sentence no. 301, February 8, 2001).

The right of choice that every person is acknowledged as having as a focal point of every modern consideration of the respect of the will of individuals for their own state of health and sickness has already been explicitly expressed and has taken on concrete shape through increasingly larger sections of the population resorting to a number of treatments and therapeutic practices known under the common overall name of ‘medicine non convenzionali—non-conventional medicines’ (MNC–NCM): acupuncture, homeopathy, phytotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine, anthroposophical medicine, homotoxicology, ayurvedic medicine, chiropractic and osteopathy (‘Guidelines for non-conventional . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Definitions
 

   Scientific Research
 

   Legal Recognition
 

   Information and Media
 

   Informed Consent
 

   Training and Skill
 

   Lower Expenditure for Medicines and Area Integration
 

   Relations with Institutions
 

   Prescription and Treatment Instruments
 

   Conclusions
 

   Signatory Associations, Bodies, Institutes, Schools and Scientific Societies
 

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