Strangers at the bedside : a history of how law and bioethics transformed medical decision making / David J. Rothman.
Series: Social institutions and social changePublication details: New York : Harper Collins, 1991.Edition: 2nd pbk. edDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 313 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 0585490295
- 9780585490298
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Notes: p. 276-302.
Includes bibliographical references (page 302) and index.
Introduction: making the invisible visible -- The nobility of the material -- Research at war -- The guilded age of research -- The doctor as whistle-blower -- New rules for the laboratory -- Bedside ethics -- The doctor as stranger -- Life through death -- Commissioning ethics -- No one to trust -- New rules for the bedside -- Epilogue: The price of success.
"This study of the transformation of the relationship between doctors and patients from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies has acquired the status of a minor classic. In this paperback edition the author has added an afterword on patient autonomy that encompasses some more recent changes in the practice of medicine and the evolving field loosely, but inexactly, characterized as bioethics. He has left intact his portrayal of the earlier, epochal changes that are the subject of the book."--Jacket.
